Now Brexit is done — at least as a political project — reflective Tories are trying to rediscover what they’re for. Boris Johnson, of course, doesn’t need to because he is his own project. Others require something more.

So there was some excitement last week at the maiden speech of the MP for Devizes, Danny Kruger. As one Daily Telegraph journalist put it on social media, the speech “heralds the arrival of a new politics of valuing the old — Christianity, tradition, the desire to belong and to root the individual in the ‘places that are theirs’. The post-liberal moment is now.”

Why the excitement? Well, Mr Kruger is nothing if not well connected. He’s advised David Cameron, been an aide to Mr Johnson and