He adds that the other candidates all agree with his assessment of Johnson’s honesty – that’s why there’s a leadership contest.
The five remaining contenders for the crown talk to Paul Goodman and take your questions.
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.
The momentum Remains with the former Chancellor and former Defence Secretary. Tugendhat’s vote declines.
Quickfire questions to and answers from the leadership candidate.
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.
“She’s the mermaid on the front of the Titanic,” one MP remarked. He would not say who he was supporting, but evidently not Mordaunt..
He doesn’t beat any likely candidate of the right in the run-offs – bad news for someone running from the centre.
In the course of a bizarre two hours before the Liaison Committee, Johnson showed undiminished abilities as a performer.
It may not be surprising that two One-Nationish potential leadership candidates are bottom of our survey. But it’s worth reading the small print.
Why did the Foreign Office fail in this case, but succeed over Ukraine, in the view of some of its critics?
He also says the Tories were punished for threatening to turn the South into the “patio of England” by building homes.
Watch in particular for interaction between Ukrainian refugees and small boats as the year lengthens.
Voters’ reluctance to act may gall the hawks, but it is decades in the making – and an accurate judgment of the UK’s actual military power.