Amongst the hopefuls, he fares best on account of his competence, his ability to handle Brexit, manage the economy and unite the country.
My Harlow constituent described her life as having been served a “lifetime sentence” of psychological and emotional torment.
We are heading towards a 1997-type defeat unless we make fundamental and radical changes to our machinery and to our policies.
Instead, the Party must demonstrate how the Labour leader as Prime Minister would raise living costs and damage public service.
We can choose either to vote idealistically or for the least worst option, given the current political realities. Politics must be the art of the possible.
I voted for the Prime Minister’s deal today. But the Commons didn’t – and we now all need a positive alternative.
All I am trying to do is give impetus to a national conversation about how our education system should prepare our young people for the future.
Educational traditionalists are wrong to believe that if we focus on academic rigour and high standards alone, everything else will fall into place.
With gangs on our streets and knives in our schools, this is too big a societal issue to look at purely through the lens of our education system.
Plus: We must be the Party for social housing as well as home ownership. And: why don’t we trumpet our history of social reform?
If all this is correct, the EEA route seems to me a sensible way forward if Parliament can’t agree on a deal.
Rather than obsess about lack of aspiration, it is the lack of social capital that we should be focusing on.
Plus: Unsung Conservative heroes. The Centre for Rocket Studies. And: why do we need the traditional, three-year University course?