The elephant isn’t just in the room. It is trumpeting loudly but it is greeted with bemusement, denial, or polite silence.

I am talking about the Tory leadership race which is full of what the renowned fox-killer now apparently calls ‘brown’ people and those other odd chaps, called women. The Tories can always claim the first ethnic minority PM in Disraeli who was Jewish but they don’t make a song and dance about it.