‘Do people know what Boris Johnson believes in? He slips and slides, whether on Islam or immigration’

‘I wonder whether people would take Pastor Martin Niemöller's poem seriously in a version beginning "First they came for the tombola . . ."?'

‘Brick Lane may be hip, but it is part of a borough where a toxic brand of sectarian politics is promoted by threats and intimidation'

The Prime Minister can handle the pressure of a crisis. But he has found it more difficult to set out a Conservative vision for Britain