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One of the greatest political strategists of my lifetime was not a politician, was certainly

not a strategist hired from abroad. He was an ad-man, Maurice Sarchi. He used to say

to the Tory party, why are you worrying about being like the point of the Tories is to

be like the plumber who you book to unblock the loo. They don't have to be likeable. They

just have to get the job done. What the people in this country want to know is what

is our programme for government? Our programme for government is to get...

All right, we're going to go for speech. Get Brexit done and take this country forward.

That message endlessly repeated, get Brexit done, is Boris Johnson's equivalent of unblocked

the loo. He doesn't want to talk about the Tories past, about the three terms they've

had, about the nine plus years. He talks as if he's a new Prime Minister running a new

government. And he doesn't much want to talk about the future. When the Conservatives

...