Michael Howard was on Radio 4’s Today programme this morning and sounded very much like a leader. I was quite impressed though very aware that he was just talking very broad strokes. We’ll have to see what happens as the months go by, but certainly from what he was saying, I want to look a lot more closely at the Tory proposals than I did.

I can’t help thinking that when he was Home Secretary crime reduced by getting on for 20%… and that sounds like an OK record to me. I’m not sure I care that he was an unpopular Home Secretary as he got results. Maybe that’s why he was unpopular?

Much more research to do I think, but so far, I’m thinking that vote is definitely “up for grabs” this time around.