For a couple of years I've been expressing my view that Starmer is a born loser. Over the last few interesting weeks I've been mulling over whether I should publicly eat my words, but I have a horrible feeling that that would be premature. The talk is of Boris Johnson making a comeback. It seems that he easily has enough MPs behind him to get on to the shortlist. I have no doubt that members would then vote him in. In that eventuality, I'm confident that he would win the next general election.

Just call me a glass half-empty bloke. I don't mind!