There are three ways moderates could yet save the Tories. One is to renounce Brexit | Polly Toynbee

David Gauke has rejoined the Conservative party , where he was expelled for rebelling against Boris Johnson’s threatened no deal’ with the EU .

Dominic Grieve is another appalled at the galloping campaign by Robert Jenrick to lead the party into the heart of the far right.

The other essential shift, they say, is electoral reform, the only way to split from Jenrickism.

These Heseltinian Tories are strong on defence and strong on building regeneration.

Strongly pro-business, one tells me: “No more ignoring productive finance in the south in favour of steelworkers in Scunthorpe ’ They are pro-free market and want “to expose Farage ’s sloppy thinking, especially on nationalisation, too far from Thatcherism”.