The Scottish Secretary, understated in his public utterances, “often makes the wittiest interjections in Cabinet discussions”.
The friendliness and expertise of the IfG’s staff, and worthiness of its aims, should not obscure its desire to place the fate of ministers in the hands of mandarins.
The unions were small-c conservatives. They paraded under heraldic banners, had no truck with such new-fangled ideas as women’s rights, and wanted to keep every coal mine in the country open.
Conservatives should be careful not to assume that all Hindus are Thatcherites in waiting. Some regard standing up to Modi, and keeping his anti-Muslim politics out of Britain, as much more important.
In a politics over-stocked with PPE graduates from Oxford, she has shown that a Liverpudlian who left school at 16 can triumph.
The new Home Secretary wants to uphold traditional British means of maintaining liberty and the rule of law.
The Transport Secretary, an early backer of Johnson for the leadership, has become one of the Government’s most trusted media performers
She is pushing through reforms which are of tremendous significance, but as yet unnoticed by the wider public.
As long as this former priest and aspirant actor can find some high moral reason for doing so, he loves to make trouble.
It is hard to see how he will manage to reconcile freedom of speech on the internet with the requirement to prevent legal but harmful content.
The Environment Secretary, in charge of the seven-year transition from the Common Agricultural Policy, prefers to do good by stealth.
Harry Potter’s creator is a natural rebel who likes nothing better than a good fight.