The Tory leadership contest continues to deliver – for Labour | John Crace

The Tory leadership contest continues to deliver – for Labour | John Crace

James Cleverly had been the one Tory talking a small amount of sense, so of course he lost to Kemi Badenoch and Robert Jenrick

You have to hand it to the Tory party. They know how to give us all a good laugh. Their desire to be an irrelevance is uncontained. A death spiral of existential nihilism. The self-proclaimed “world’s most sophisticated electorate” of Tory MPs has given us the sketch-writer’s dream ending.

After Tuesday’s third round of voting it seemed an inevitability that James Cleverly was going to make it through to the final two. Even Jimmy Dimly seemed to think he was a shoo-in. During prime minister’s questions he preened on the opposition frontbench. A man awaiting his coronation.

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