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.
Parts of the media suspected, wrongly, that she was an Establishment stooge: her work leading the Vaccine Taskforce has since been triumphantly vindicated.
Baker has infuriated some Tories, but others regard him as the rising hope of the stern unbending Austrian economists.
The President of COP26 is suddenly so well-known that he attracts criticism as well as admiration, and interest in his roots as an admirer of Thatcher.
If Peter Sellers were still around, he could play the President to perfection, as a politician who is all at once cunning, witty, naive and triumphant.
His compulsion to tell jokes distracts attention from more than half a century of campaigning to save the planet.
She shares with him the ability to throw opponents off balance – and a commitment to levelling up.
Part of the charm of the new Housing Secretary is that one never quite knows what he is going to do next.