You can imagine the sign outside Tory central office. Shop closed - out to lunch.
In the end leaders are leaders. They get the credit and they get the blame.
There are those who never stretch out the hand for fear it will be bitten. But those who never stretch out the hand will never feel it clasped in friendship.
The two super-powers cannot divide the world into their oyster.
Mrs Thatcher was not lightly bullied.
I can foresee no circumstance in which I would allow my name to be put forward for the leadership of the Conservative Party.