They were John Major’s kind of people, the audience in the Sheikh Zayed Theatre in the Cheng Kin Ku Building at the London School of Economics last night. They filed in quietly, took their seats politely, and waited relaxedly for the ex prime minister. One man slouched, careless blotches of black dye on his thinning cirrus hair, while another sterilised his glasses with an individually wrapped wipe, going in every corner and crevice until it all looked stupidly clean. A third flicked through the Financial Times . It was 6:25 p.m., five minutes before Sir John was due. Only a man with no worries takes the morning’s news in the evening.

Sir John would say the audience was ‘at ease with itself’, and that is exactly how he likes his people. If Sir John has wanted one thing for Britain in h

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