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The Conservative leader has drawn large crowds to rallies across the country, where "Bring it Home" is a call to arms: both to vote for a change of government and a nod to the wave of Canadian patriotism in the face of US tariff threats.

It was certainly instructive to encounter David Brooks’ call to arms in the same week as another Times contributor, Bret Stephens — a staunch dispenser of anti-woke, pro-Israel right-wing conventional wisdom — described the Trump administration as “drowning” in policies he called “reckless, stupid, awful, un-American, hateful and bad.”

He convened an emergency meeting with representatives of French businesses most affected by the newly announced 20% tariffs on EU goods sold to the US and issued a call to arms to European business "not to invest in America for some time until we have clarified things".

He defended a public "call to arms" made at a Downing Street news conference on 10 April 2020 for more UK suppliers of PPE to come forward.

"No-one has testified that the call to arms led to anything other than more PPE… So I stand by that."