I often think of when Brown stood under a sign saying: “You can’t polish a turd ... but you can roll it in glitter.”

While No10 squabbles over who does the glitter rolling, the truth is there is a lack of anything solid.

My piece for @timesredbox

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-problem-with-project-johnson-you-cant-polish-nothing-or-roll-it-in-glitter-vhtw889h8

It’s a real problem going into No10 not from opposition.

New Labour and Cameroonism were forged during late nights in cramped offices.

Brown, May and now Johnson all struggled with no project, and no team loyalty to it.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-problem-with-project-johnson-you-cant-polish-nothing-or-roll-it-in-glitter-vhtw889h8

So out go the Mitchell Brothers, in come Thelma and Louise. But this is about ego not ideology.

Stratton & Symonds want to soften the PM, but you suspect it is to make it less awks to say at London dinner parties that one works for the bally Tories.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-problem-with-project-johnson-you-cant-polish-nothing-or-roll-it-in-glitter-vhtw889h8