Mind you, he will have to show as well as tell in the little time he has left. That means having a Plan B if the Supreme Court or the ECtHR rules against the Rwanda scheme.
Number Ten and CCHQ will be tempted to take false comfort from that last result. They shouldn’t. On the present trajectory, the Prime Minister is on course to be ejected from office.
But there’s a gap between the scale of what he needs to do, if he sees through his change of plan, and the personnel available to him.
The A list and its successors haven’t kept a golden generation out of Parliament. Many of those who might have made it up aren’t putting themselves forward for selection in the first place.
They clearly believe that judges are increasingly taking upon themselves the role of MPs – and are willing to leave the Convention in consequence.
But over two in five members don’t – and his support has fallen since our last survey was held just over a month ago.
CCHQ says no, others claim yes. Either way, that Goodwin might make her claim was foreseeable, and one needs little imagination to picture the consequence.
It may not be possible for the West to find one, but it’s in our interest to try – no less than to support war-torn, Putin-invaded Ukraine.
Above all, they shouldn’t become preoccupied with Woke to the exclusion of everything else. This is the trap that many Labour backbenchers and much of the Left is falling into.
Recently, we reformed the West Midlands Tourism and Hospitality Advisory Board, which speaks on behalf of the sector.
The committee’s report was thorough, but the sentence is disproportionate.
He is a Hillingdon Borough Councillor, representing South Ruislip – and is also a Deputy Chairman of Uxbridge & South Ruislip Conservative Association.
Our Editor on the Privileges Committee inquiry into the former Prime Minister – and why he thinks it would have been better not to hold it.
Party activists could be forgiven for wondering if he would now rather have Starmer in Downing Street than Sunak.