Looking round the hall, this rum crowd led by an even weirder lot on the platform never has and never will speak for England. Nearer the truth but even that can't be quite right either. Tory party membership fell again this year - maybe not defections, just dropping off the perch. Staring-eyed young men who babble only Europhobia, rich farmers and rather cross old women.
Support is wide but cool.
All his early ducking and weaving has left too few ardent devotees. Now pensions and petrol, the dome and disappointment have Labour on the run. Not a bad thing. How pleasingly it sharpened their ideological identity when a genuine blue peril rattled their gates last week. But no, he's not going to be.