Any fair-minded observer would think better of him at the end of yesterday’s press conference than he or she may have done at the beginning.
May’s appeal next week at Chequers will be founded in grinding detail, not Churchillian rhetoric. Key to agreement will be taking Ministers with her and springing no untoward surprises.
The DUP leader has not yet shown she knows how to make the strange machinery set up in Stormont work.
Plus: PMQs verdicts. Craig Oliver should look in a mirror. Our Why Vote? results. Let them eat mangos. And: Gus O’Donnell – a bit of a dick.