I'm A First-past-the-post Person, And

In Seats Where Perhaps We Don't Expect To Win At The Next General Election, The New Infrastructure Gives Us A Chance To Win Local Council Seats And To Build A Campaigning Base Which Could Help Us To Win In The Future.

Starting With The Highest-risk Countries, And Focusing On The Route To Britain That Is Widely Abused, Student Visas, We Will Increase The Number Of Interviews To Considerably More Than 100,000, Starting Next Financial Year. From There, We Will Extend The Interviewing Programme Further Across All Routes To Britain, Wherever The Evidence Takes Us.

It [selecting As Many Candidates As Possible] Is Also Advantageous For The [conservative] Party Because It Helps Us To Build A Base In Those Areas Where We Have Not In, Recent Times, Been As Active As We'd Have Liked. It Means That Opposing Parties Don't Get A Free Run But Are Challenged To Prove Themselves To Voters.

The Last Time Boris Johnson Did A Deal With The Germans He Came Back With Three Nearly New Water Cannon.

I Think Major Reorganisation Is Not Something The Government's About To Do.