I have just been listening to Rory Stewart's The long history of argument. I find it hard to imagine Johnson, Truss or Sunak being able to do something so reasoned, wide ranging and erudite.

Once again, I am reminded that the whole of the Conservative party, and hence the country, could be in a very different place if he had won instead of Johnson. Sure, I won't agree with him on everything, and he would have had to find a way of handling the pandemic and the cost of living crisis as well, which could blow him off course. But I am convinced he would have tried to work in the country's best interest, not just his own.