It's an interesting use of Boiles. Let's not forget that he was introduced to the citizenry as a policy tanker, a thinker with a license to range off the party line.
And, to be fair, we did get the land value tax which is about as far outside the Grantham, Stamford and Bourne Conservative Association comfort box as you could possibly go.
But with his mutation to sockpuppetry for the Notting Hill set, you have to wonder if he isn't just a useful Nick chosen for the job of giving Liam Fox a decent send-off tongue in cheek perhaps.