No celebrity candidates. No non-Tories. Bailey, Boff and Morrissey have all spent years campaigning, knocking on doors, handing out leaflets in the sun and in the rain.
The focus is on the choice of candidate. But the first consideration should be what the message should be and how it can be conveyed.
Six were from west or north London constituencies, plus Windsor’s Adam Afriyie and Sir David Amess of Southend West.
Support for expansion is the prevailing wisdom, but it’s demonstrably wrong – even using the Department for Transport’s own figures.
The candidate will be selected before the Party conference in September.
He is the laziest and most self-indulgent Leader of the Opposition in living memory.
The Mayor should take the responsibility to be a unifying figure with a positive message – not just churn out doom-laden predictions.
Brexit offers green opportunities, but it will also open a governance gap that must be filled.
When I worked in Number Ten, the people who grasped most clearly this ideology’s threat were my Muslim co-workers.
But if they defy the referendum result, they must also accept the consequences.
Their falling-out is an open wound that risks infection.
A reminder that most constituencies are not Richmond Park, and most voters are not Continuity Remainers.
The current rules blur the line between fishing waters and properly-protected areas, and our Overseas Territories need more support.