and along the way, by the way, i do think we might destroy our currencies as well. crosstalk. given that is what i think we face, i am under a duty, therefore, to tell people and ask for a change of direction. there is one other question you face — it's the question lots of people asked you when you were on political thinking three years ago. will you run to be leader? no, not now. because it's a totally implausible idea that any backbencher is going to be catapulted into the last two, past every government minister in the whole cabinet by conservative mps. you might as well ask if i'd like to be a ballerina or an astronaut. it's not going to happen. do you know who you will back? no. i know i'm — i am pretty confident, given my record, that i will be busy during the next leadership election, but i am not at all certain who for. and, finally, you said it is important to keep a sense of humour in all of this. yeah. doesn't the conservative party, doesn't the tory right, in particular, risk looking like those groups in the life of brian, the monty python film, in which the people's popular front ofjudaea are murdering the popular front ofjudaea while