Can Theresa May really be the favourite to become next Tory leader? Well, that’s what a YouGov poll claims, saying 31 per cent of Conservative voters back her against 24 per cent for Boris Johnson. Yes, I do realise that, nowadays, opinion polls are basically a branch of experimental fiction, but even so, this one is particularly rum.

While other ministers were putting their necks on the line during the referendum campaign, Theresa May did what exactly? She made herself invisible, that’s what. Declining to speak up too loudly for Remain, lest it make her seem hypocritical, she refused to join forces with the Brexiteers and thereby kept herself in the Prime Minister’s good books, just in case. What a weedy wet!