[BBKing]

Department of WTF?

Davis has been consistently (and I hate to say it, since I disagree with him on a lot of things) principled on the subject of defending British liberties, so to see him apparently at odds with his partys neocon wing* is highly worrying, particularly if he's losing. I suspect there may be differences over how far a Tory government should go in rolling back the New Labour police state framework.

I actually thought he'd make a much better candidate for London Mayor than Johnson, since he's actually from London and isn't an undisciplined, lazy buffoon. Perhaps there's a job for him there.

* such as Michael Gove and the website Conservative Home, colloquially known as 'Continuity IDS'. It's often underestimated how powerful a figure Ian Duncan Smith is on the hard right of the Conservative Party.