The contrast between those blithe campaigns and this appalling landscape is unnerving, and raises profound questions about politicians and truth.
The leadership candidate sets out her stall at the election’s opening hustings in Leeds.
The two candidates have less than ten days to bring to the campaign her conviction that sticking with the status quo simply won’t do.
Any benefits voters get from lower taxes will be wiped out if the Bank of England doesn’t learn to keep inflation down.
I draw on Public First’s Conservative Leadership Policy Tracker which is being continuously updated for all the above.
Taken together, our survey and YouGov’s polling suggest that the Chancellor has narrowed the gap between him and his opponents among Party members. But he is running out of time in which to get ahead.
The Foreign Secretary is the winner among Party members of the top three candidates in the Parliamentary ballot if this survey is right. But Sunak has closed the gap on her.
The summing-up remarks of the five Conservative leadership contenders from our online hustings last Friday.
Badenoch has cut through from close second to decisive first. Mordaunt has slipped to third, Truss is up to second, Sunak is hard on their heels.
It would also make a mockery of any hustings held later than early August, since many of those present will by then already have voted.
I’m haunted by the prospect of an inexperienced candidate making it to Downing Street with the Party’s most experienced people having backed another.
If having a base among MPs and members makes a candidate, the Foreign Secretary is a very strong one indeed in the event of an election.
Delivering the right vehicle cannot be premised on the idea that non-EU states are merely satellites of Brussels.
Last week’s confidence vote leaves the Government right about the Protocol’s operability but less capable of acting to improve it.