Where will Boris get his ideas from?

Has Boris Johnson run out of ideas? It’s not an unreasonable question at the end of a week in which more than 40 per cent of his MPs said they didn’t want him leading them any more. Still less unreasonable when his big reveal policies have been getting on with something that David Cameron signed off on in 2015 but that hasn’t yet happened; and a ‘once in a generation’ transformation of the NHS which seems to amount to some middle managers going on a course.

The right to buy announcement will merely implement an old policy, while the mortgage review alongside it may help a few first time buyers. The NHS Messenger Review does cover an important issue regarding the quality of leadership in the health service, pointing to the ‘institutional inadequacy in the way that leadership and management is trained, developed and valued’. That inadequacy has clearly been a factor in some of the number of large-scale scandals in the health service over the past few years, but also in the way many whistleblowers are treated, as well as the issue of bullying in certain trusts.