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That's true but there was no process to vote in a Tory leader then - he was nominated by Macmillan and that was it. As there was a vacant seat - the safest Tory seat in the country - he was only a peer and PM for two weeks. Interestingly, he was able to do this because Tony Benn fought a long...

Indeed, he could be a peer of the realm but a) there hasn't been a peer as prime minister for more than a 100 years and to do so now would be a gift to Labour and b) Cameron and Johnson do not get on, it would be inconceivable for Cameron to offer a peerage to someone so that he can stab him in...

How can Boris take over, he's not an MP? Cameron would have to resign not just as PM but as MP, call a by-election, Boris would have to be selected and win and then win a Tory election. And in the meantime, the party would continue leaderless for a couple of months while all this is happening.

While I fully agree that the whole Blair/Gallagher brothers episode was highly embarrassing, I think it's ironic that the poster pointing that a middle-aged man should act with more dignity is called Melia's Shoes :)

If we're talking about judging someone innocent or guilty I'd agree with you, but we're not. We're talking about someone who's a press advisor and if your press advisor IS the story you're in trouble. In a sensitive position like the PM's director of communications, you need someone squeaky...

This isn't a question of hindsight though. He was warned quite explicitly before he hired Coulson that he should steer well clear (see Peter Oborne's piece in the Telegraph yesterday) and questions about the wisdom of hiring him were raised frequently in the press before all this broke...