midsummer madness

Freeman warned that “instability will fuel a febrile moment of midsummer madness,” as Johnson hangs on and candidates campaign.

George Freeman, who quit as science minister on Thursday, said he worried about a leadership election being held in “a febrile moment of midsummer madness, where we choose the wrong person in a hurry because of the instability.”

If Westminster’s midsummer madness does lead to a car crash, so be it.

But there’s method in Ms. Coonrod’s midsummer madness.

If a seeming midsummer madness has taken hold of the campaign, there's a method to it: Next week brings the first debate of the Republican primary season, and only the top 10 candidates, chosen by poll rankings, get to take part.