As a drowning man, adrift in the middle of the ocean, will thrash about and clutch at anything that might promise safety, so Conservative MPs are frantically looking around for anyone who might be a fresh face and save them from oblivion. This hope is in vain. It comes from a media-driven and short-termist understanding of politics in which personality and presentation are central but that is not what politics is about and the party’s problems cannot be fixed by yet another new face. They are mu