Rory Stewart was great as Prisons Minister, a real breath of fresh air, but he didn't have long. (View Post)

Re; Clarke, Jacqui Smith and others, that was indeed the fag-end era of New Labour authoritarianism, as wooliedyed highlights, and I hope Starmer doesn't go too far back to that, as his Mail-ple… (View Post)

Interesting comments abound on European twitter that Varadkar was half-Irish. So Sunak is in fact indeed the first ethnic minority leader of any european country. (View Post)

Interesting for Indians too that Rishi's ascent comes on the day of DIvaii, the day of the festival of lights. (View Post)

If I'm not very much mistaken, it was Cameron that did change the rules to bring less conventional Tory candidates forward, with his "selection A-list". (View Post)