commentary here . Also, read the report I linked to on the attitudes of swing voters, whose results were as I described. Mr Johnson won for two reasons. The first was that the Mayor of London is despite all the spin a more ceremonial role that suits a celebrity best rather a very serious politician. The other was that he was not Mr Livingstone. That does not make him a prime ministerial or party leader material. He did not distinguish himself as a Shadow Spokesman. Besides his record of peccadillo is not what we expect from a Prime Minister. A man who repeatedly failed to keep his promise to his wife is hardly the one the nation could entrust their fate. If the Tories are hankering after a long life in political oblivion that is their prerogative. Those who lost the Tory leadership election too had better remember that they lost and they will never ever win the leadership for themselves. Their posturing and plotting will not give them any influence save in making the Tories unelectable. Having said all that the choice is entirely their's and I shall enjoy the coded attacks as well as sight and sound of sharping knives at the Tory party conference. Following a politics and the political knife fight has been rather boring but now it is beginning to stir. is brother is one of the best friends of the bankers. We need new leader, perhaps new party that's not afraid of the bankers.