The Prime Minister was obliged to listen to some advice from Wellingborough Conservative Party: “Say the first thing that comes into your head.”
Whether writing, speaking or negotiating, he puts on a performance which the spectators enjoy all the more because it horrifies the guardians of convention.
In his new history, Stephen Wall describes the unbridgeable divide on Europe into which any Prime Minister is in danger of tumbling.
Only with the benefit of hindsight will it be possible to see what game the Prime Minister is playing in the Brexit negotiations.
The sheer speed of vaccine invention and deployment marks a political win for him as well as a British triumph.
Starmer, accused of being a total abstainer, drew blood by recalling how the PM had once run away to Afghanistan.
The proposals published today to make England the first country to end new cases of HIV fit within a Tory tradition of pragmatic health policy.
The Transport Secretary has set up a reform committee which is getting ready to use the pandemic to rout the Luddites in the rail unions.
This account of three and a half years as a special adviser confirms how trivial and transitory the role can be.
He sought to unite the nation in a moral mission, “a common endeavour”, and to leave Labour with nothing to say.
Today’s proceedings were about as watchable as a game of cricket where the batsman does not actually have to face the bowling in person.
She may appear to present a softer target than he does, but she has never been afraid of fighting her corner.
Tories will read the story of his ascent to high office with enormous pleasure – for it amounts to a vindication of the United Kingdom.
Starmer could not lay a glove on an opponent who felt emboldened by the discovery of fresh ways to fight the pandemic.
In his speech, he quoted from the Bible, in its best and most traditional version: yet more evidence of his own conservatism.