Her performance at the Coronation won the Leader of the House an adoring public, and indicated that despite her many critics she is still a potential successor to Sunak.
The Deputy Prime Minister, who has prepared Tory leaders since Howard for PMQs, at last stepped into the limelight himself.
The conference showed a large number of people, many of them young, wondering what part a rehabilitated, reinvigorated, Christian conservatism inspired by Burke and Disraeli might have to play.
Starmer was solidly pious, but lacked the wit to score a palpable hit.
Tomorrow’s spectacle is better understood as poetry than in the severely rational terms of democratic theorists who accept no need for religion and ritual.
The Prime Minister showed the resilience indistinguishable from shamelessness which all PMs require.
The odd thing about this author and hisĀ Guardian friends is that they cannot understand movement. Though they think of themselves as progressive, they are in many ways deeply reactionary.
The two leaders preached to the converted by trading exaggerated insults.
The may do so by concentrating on “the unsexy stuff that people care about”, which include dog mess, potholes and parking.
Labour MPs watched Starmer with the anxious air of primary school parents whose child has been miscast in the nativity play.
George Smith, the local Conservative leader, expects to beat Residents for Uttlesford, but faces acutely difficult decisions about how many houses to build.
Many former Labour supporters may decide on 4th May that the Conservatives, led now by a Hindu PM, are a better bet.
On Good Friday, we should recall that whatever is thriving in the Church is ignored in the media, and should heed Dr Johnson’s example.
There is no time for writing yet more reports about Child Sexual Exploitation: the Government wishes to show it is now going to act.
When British politics falls into the hands of trendy university graduates, the working class looks to untrendy leaders – Thatcher, Johnson – for salvation.