The PM need work no more on his patient, calm, Government of Service persona. It has achieved the perfection of the pulpit; gleaming with episcopal polish.
He rose to the despatch box and laid before the House with simplicity, humility, and (were we imagining it?) a hint of submission to the eternal, the murdered David Amess, a dead general, a Holocaust survivor, and Alex Salmond. Ah, yes, what a hole he left behind him.
