That may explain his promise on March 10th to hold a referendum, if re-elected, on whether to redesign the national flag, including by removing the Union Jack from it.
"No matter who is elected on Nov. 6, whether they agree on climate or not, it doesn't change the science," she said at a forum in New York in September.
At the party's weekly press briefing, I asked the Welsh Conservative leader Andrew RT Davies, who was elected on the list, whether he'd stand as a constituency candidate in his home turf of the Vale of Glamorgan but he said he hadn't thought about it.
The courts have yet to decide whether politicians can be elected on disqualified candidates' coat-tails.
Anderson elected on first ballot.
Carlisle was elected on the ninth ballot.
Democrats accuse him of rigging the process to get his brother elected, whether acting on his own or through political allies including Katherine Harris, the secretary of state, Tom Feeney, the House speaker, and John McKay, the Senate president.
To elected officials, deciding whether to press on with a show can be difficult.
It makes you wonder whether his goal is to be elected president on Nov. 7 or own a party on Nov. 8".
Pickles did not make clear today whether referendums would be required under the Tory plans for elected mayors, or whether this model would be imposed on communities.
He will also consider whether to find a role for Boris Johnson, who was elected to Parliament on Friday after a seven-year absence from the Commons.
