There's still time...

In May 2008, The Spectator's Fraser Nelson said that James Purnell, then Work and Pensions Secretary, was the best person to succeed Gordon Brown. "Already surging ahead at his department, he has the gift of sounding like an ordinary human being — and he understands the Cameron Conservative party".

Later that year US focus group guru Frank Luntz tested how he might go down with voters. This video, below, looks to have come from a British tv programme and has been edited to suit the poster's view of Jim - but it's still quite fun....