Theresa May has hired a leading Remain campaigner to work on her Tory leadership bid. Alison Griffiths says she will be May’s Director of Operations, fresh out of her role as Chief Operating Officer for the doomed Conservatives In. On her CV Griffiths says she was “COO of The Prime Minister’s campaign for the UK to vote to Remain in the European Union”, hardly something to boast about. Griffith’s Conservatives In colleague Charlotte Vere, who was the group’s executive director, is also backing May. Will this convince the membership of May’s commitment to deliver on Brexit?

UPDATE: Theresa May’s team say Griffiths has a “junior role” and stress that their ground war will be run by Stephen Parkinson, formerly of Vote Leave.