“I don’t even know what he believes. He won’t talk to me. He won’t talk to you. He won’t talk to the public.”
The candidate demonstrates his strong appeal to floating voters, sees some disgracefully filthy toilets, and witnesses the aftermath of a murder.
Each week, we’ll be summarising the announcements made by those vying to succeed May as Prime Minister.
But no fun at all for May and Hammond.
The Foreign Secretary has got tough with devocrats pursuing their own foreign policy, whilst his predecessor picks up several endorsements from Scottish and Welsh MPs.
Our elder statesman returns for the election – and writes that “the poor devil who wins will then face the same dead end as old Mrs May”.
Gove, Stewart and perhaps others too could see their standing and prospects damaged this afternoon.
He reproached the advocates of no deal for telling a fairy tale.
“The great prancing elephant in the tent is a vision that some call populism but that I call negativism.”
For most in our groups, the strongest candidates were Johnson, Hunt and Javid, though Stewart had also stuck in several people’s minds.