Just dropped in The Guardian: Jenrick sabotaged his Tory leadership chances at conference, survey of members suggests, with Cleverly rising fast Conservative members were more likely to be turned off… (View Post)

Badenoch is a risk, if "risk" means there is a possible upside as well as downside. Jenrick is not a risk. He's all downside. Just LOOK at him, and LISTEN to him. He could be packaged in an… (View Post)

An eminently sane and realistic assessment of the Tory leadership race by David Gauke. https://conservativehome.com/2024/10/07/david-gauke-there-is-no-inevitability-about-this-race-but-cleverly-is-no… (View Post)

Actually, amiability goes quite a long way. As we saw with Ronald Reagan. Cleverly was, ahem, clever to draw on the 40th President in his speech. (View Post)

Can't help wondering about Tugendhat now. Not stellar, but the only candidate not to have slipped on a banana skin. And with the news agenda dominated by foreign affairs, it certainly plays to his st… (View Post)