As predicted by this blog in previous posts Stewart fell, Gove had baggage to do with Boris and Hunt, the man in the neat suit who talked to the issues and answered the questions, got through to the final. Just. Rumours of votes being traded trickle through Westminster. They are probably right. Among its many qualities the Westminster village cannot boast purity or innocence. Politics in this country is cleaner than in many, but no politics anywhere is bright spanking clean.
Now we have the hustings, which are to be open only to Tory party members to attend, but will be broadcast to the nation to follow. So it is a spectator sport for all. It is worth rubbing in the fact that never before has a membership of any political party taken time to elect a leader outside parliament, while that party was in office. The constitutional tension has been the subject of previous posts.
Yet we are where we are and the contest is thought to be a shoe in for Boris. Perhaps it is. Polling suggests it will be. Fine, so be it. But watch the man with the tidy haircut and the neat suit.