Tom Tugendhat is an attractive candidate. A Catholic veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan, he is French-speaking thanks to his Gallic mother and of Austrian Jewish descent on the side of his father, an Ampleforth-educated High Court judge. Cosmopolitanism tempered by experience of the British establishment is an appealing Catholic mixture, but Tugendhat has too often veered into the neoconservative foreign policy that got us into a lot of bother in the first place – and which devastated the Middle East’s native Christian communities. He is strong on China but can’t avoid giving off the hint that he might walk us headlong into a third world war.