The two candidates have less than ten days to bring to the campaign her conviction that sticking with the status quo simply won’t do.
He has notched up some remarkable accomplishments. With some help, his best days may still be to come.
The Foreign Secretary knows that she is being played off by them against the Chancellor. They know she knows. And she knows they know she knows.
The pace of departure, the allegations about him and how they’re being handled are all inextricably linked.
We’re about to find out whether the Commission’s work marks a turning-point for the zeitgiest, policy – and attitudes to the Tories.
Williamson’s new policy is an important step – but Conservatives cannot legislate themselves out of the culture wars.
O’Brien has arrived to find the MP for Havant already in place, who though not a former think tank head is no policy slouch.
We fear the worst after Cummings’ departure, but Johnson must now make the best of it. That means a Cabinet shuffle.
Newspapers have called her the “Duchess of Downing Street” and suggested she formed a “crew” with other women to see off Lee Cain.
It was promised “in our first year”. Instead, there will be mini-commissions, and a push to reform a Government bugbear: judicial review.
He may move out of Number Ten altogether for work and into the Cabinet Office at 70 Whitehall.
As with Brexit, the fundamentals of the Tory position are much stronger than they may seem to be.
The membership of a new Government commission represents a significant evolution in the story of these issues in Britain – and within the Conservatives.