Yeah, and weirdly, he seems much more reasonable out of cabinet, despite his gutting of the NHS before a national pandemic. I think he's positioning himself as the last remaining One Nation Tory (something I find much easier to digest than Johnson's post-truth populism) but I don't see the Tories going back to that approach unless they experience a full electoral wipeout - which doesn't seem likely atm.
For me I think it's a pretty standard thing for people to appear more reasonable outside the cabinet than they did inside it, because they're free to say more or less what they actually think rather than toeing the party line on whatever mad thing they've been tasked with delivering for the govt.
Yeah, and weirdly, he seems much more reasonable out of cabinet, despite his gutting of the NHS before a national pandemic. I think he's positioning himself as the last remaining One Nation Tory (something I find much easier to digest than Johnson's post-truth populism) but I don't see the Tories going back to that approach unless they experience a full electoral wipeout - which doesn't seem likely atm.