Leadership

Watching events unfurl after the referendum vote to leave the EU one is fascinated by the alignment of people wishing to throw their hat in the ring to become the next PM and more importantly to lead the negotiations for our exit.
One of the important questions is can someone 'who didn't want us to leave' be in charge of the specifics surrounding our exit. Can someone who's heart is not in the game be trusted to obtain maximum advantage of our position or will they always have, as an aside to the people on the other side of the table "don't blame me I voted to stay in" ?
Looking at the candidates from the leave camp I was not impressed by any of them until slowly to emerge as a bright sensible individual with a background in the one industry which we are good at and might pull us through, until we rediscover how to manufacture things again, is Andrea Leadsom

Listening to her this morning on the Andrew Marr Show she projected a "can do" attitude  which was refreshing. She didn't seem daunted by the task and wanted to invoke Article 50, the trigger to begin the negotiations, straight away. Her business acumen rather than a purely political background is what is needed as we launch United Kingdom PLC, not a political gavotte with the masters of the dance, the bureaucrats in the Commission but someone who  as the negotiations drag along, will at the same time put her effort into making us, as a country "fit for purpose" enacting decisions led more by the need for future investment and training than by the politics of attracting votes.

Theresa May although failing outside my initial criteria, having voted with the Stay camp has the gravitas and a cool head under pressure evidenced by her taking on the Police when faced with the need to cut their budget. She placed herself in the firing line at their conference and was unflinching in her decision to tackle the old shibboleths of John Peels force. She would make a good PM but this morning I have switched behind Leadsom if for no other reason than her breezy optimism which is what we need as a country.
Gove, I think unfairly, has been painted a traitor for telling the world what it needed to know, that the heir apparent Boris Johnson was not up to the task. He did us all a service, unless you are one who wish to see us relegated to a circus which is what the clown Boris would have projected. Gove also is a man of principle and his fight with the teachers union was no less a bloody affair than Mays battle with the police. Cameron didn't have the stomach for Groves questioning much of the entrenched practice within the teaching profession and moved him to Justice where he was engaged in a shakeup when the Referendum was called. He comes across as a geek swallowing his words and I feel the populous would never take him to their hearts as I think they will with Andrea Leadsom.