" He is not a politician. He’s not even somebody who weighs his words. But he is, in the end, a conformist. A man whose centre of gravity can’t easily be found because he has never taken the time to work out where it is he wants to stand. He only knows his limits when he actually meets them, in the world. As, "

― M.R. Carey , The Boy on the Bridge (The Girl With All the Gifts, #2)