Sam Gyimah, prisons minister and a former parliamentary aide to David Cameron, has been tipped as one to watch

A month ago Theresa May began the final day of her first, and probably last, general election campaign as prime minister by visiting Smithfield Market where she spoke to white-coated, white-haired butchers.

From London, she travelled to Southampton Test — a university constituency, where, instead of meeting students, she sipped tea with pensioners at a lawn bowls club.

Those few hours were symptomatic of a campaign which, according to one defeated MP, “just had no vision of hope and opportunity for the future”. Tory MPs say that Mrs May’s campaign focused on the old at the expense of the young and appeared to hark back to the past with its policies on foxhunting and grammar schools. They are plotting to skip a generation, replacing her