This is a completely new government. And it is being put together with forensic precision and an eye for competence. One by one the hot air balloons and meddlers are returning to the back benches. This is good news for the country, which desperately needs a government of authority and mission. A mission a good deal left of Osborne’s food-bank Utopia. Of course not everybody will support the mission and on the other side of the House is an Opposition which, were it a person, would be Sectioned for its own protection.
So far it has launched a coup against its leader which failed, a no confidence motion which was ignored, a squalid fix to keep the landslide backed incumbent off the ballot paper in the event of a contest and, the latest, is a contest in which they cannot agree upon their candidate. Meanwhile in Downing Street, a place now receded into distant folk memories of these deluded parliamentarians and likely to recede further still, events unfold at lightening speed. For the Labour Movement this could be a new dawn, but for the current Parliamentary Labour Party it is all but over. If not beaten by Corbyn, they will certainly be beaten by May, Boris et al.