heft

Beating two of the party's four MPs to the leadership, the 42-year-old has already faced down the charge that he doesn't have the establishment heft of those elected to Parliament in a first-past-the-post system.

After two years of mostly small exchanges — cookbook galleys, costume jewelry, a set of dinner plates with just the right heft — we brought home something that, improbably, shifted the cadence of our cooking.

Go for something with a little backbone: thin, crisp gingersnaps that go tender overnight; store-bought shortbread with buttery heft; or ladyfingers, if you’re chasing tiramisu energy.

But Badenoch has chosen to use this moment, just before MPs leave Westminster for the summer recess, to bring some fresh heft to her top team.

The best that can be said about “The Woman in the House” is that it is equal in heft and worth to your average women-in-peril cable movie.