He had charm, steel and ability, and might have led the Party were it not for his resignation and the circumstances that forced it.
You’re then four or five years ahead of a graduate, already knowledgeable about the role and the business, and you’ve been earning all the while.
His Monday initiatives and the lack of opposition are allowing him to dominate the first three days of the seven – before moving to PMQs on the fourth.
The second piece in our mini-series on whether the Chancellor is achieving the rebalancing of the economy he wants.
Perhaps we will find out when Labour Leave launches this week.
The council tax precept will not be enough to meet the challenge.
Rows, plots, leaks, secret deals, an inquiry, debates in Parliament and the loss of the Defence Secretary – all over “a company with a capitalisation of only £30 million”.
The campaign to quit the EU lacks charismatic faces to put up against the Prime Minister, three former premiers and well-known business figures.
We’re bloody-minded, independent and stubborn at our best – it should perhaps be no surprise that we can be difficult to manage.
Khan has a remarkable ability to understand what people want to hear, and an almost unbounded willingness to say it.
Making the state bigger is wrong and rolling it back is not enough.
Win or lose, the London Mayoral candidate now needs to show the message discipline of a conventional candidate…without losing his individualist charm.
Corbyn’s farce may be good for the Conservative leadership – and fun for this site – but it is thoroughly bad for Britain.
I can refute the charge of deliberate herding from my own experience.