Originally Posted by BBking

Boris and the UKIP candidate, presumably. Boris is a lovely fellow and all that, partly because when he screws up, he owns up like a gentleman, but he has plenty of practice, and I'm not sure a man with no experience of actually running anything more complicated than a conservative magazine (he's always been in opposition as a politician) is necessarily better than the man who's spent his life in London politics. The Tories are clearly having trouble finding a London man suitable for the job - personally I think David Davis would be a fine candidate for them, but as one of the few non-Etonians in the Cabinet his talents are needed there.