They “have been led by David Frost right from the beginning”, says the Environment Secretary.
The manifesto path means doing things now. The Cameroon path relies on a public rejection of much said before. A vague agenda in the middle won’t cut it.
Finding a new Chief of Staff is only the start of the changes that Johnson needs to make his government work.
There were moments when the PM made everyone from the Speaker down laugh, and most of his listeners were grateful for light relief from the crisis.
Plus: Macron has closed Paris at night. Merkel is pondering tougher restrictions. So don’t blame Johnson as though our situation were unique.
Johnson needs a Simon Milton figure in government. The move would be controversial, to put it mildly. But who else is there?
I was regaled with horror story after story on access to even existing testing. Confidence in the “moonshot” is non-existent.
Johnson and Cummings’ previous assaults on the pre-Brexit order have been brilliantly conceived. This one may not be up to the same standard.
Australia’s former Prime Minister knows all about trade deals – and can supply insights both from his experience and an international contact book.
The Corporation has lost its grip on its Reithian inheritance – which, for all his criticism of the BBC, the former Telegraph editor understands.
Plus: incompetence, resignations, non-resignations, reputations, my holiday, Any Questions and Finkelstein’s book.
Johnson will almost certainly decide to tough it out. But he will have a big problem if school returns prove tricky.
Many will now be asking whether Williamson is in a position to lead the crucial return to school in only a few weeks time.
The Government is proposing to plough £800 million into copying an idea the US abandoned decades ago. It won’t work.
Compare and contrast how government works with what the Armed Forces do – and their practice of decentralised command.