James Forsyth James Forsyth

Will Theresa lead the Out tribe?

If she backed the Outers it would give her what she has always lacked — a political tribe

issue 24 October 2015

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[/audioplayer]Who is the most politically interesting member of David Cameron’s cabinet? There’s a good case to be made for Michael Gove. He is as intent on reforming the justice system as he was our schools. If he succeeds, it will be the biggest transformation in Britain’s approach to criminal justice since the Roy Jenkins years. The prison population will begin to fall.

Or you could pick George Osborne, who has to maintain his position as the heir apparent, reposition the Tories as the workers’ party and at the same time preside over billions of pounds’ worth of cuts. Or there’s Liz Truss and Sajid Javid, secretaries of state who have delighted Downing Street by approaching the spending review with their Free Enterprise Group radicalism.

But the most politically interesting member of the cabinet right now is Theresa May.

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