No, please no. Not again. Not again! As the Conservatives gear up to choose their next leader, and bookmakers place odds of 6/4 on Robert Jenrick, and just 4-1 for Kemi Badenoch, one has the most awful feeling of déjà vu. The party have already had their Jeremy Corbyn moment in choosing Liz Truss and their ‘let’s just plump for a manager’ spasm in voting in Rishi Sunak. Neither of those things, as I predicted in 2022, brought them anything but electoral wipeout, and nor did their rebuffing of Kemi Badenoch, their only obvious star.
With their measly 121 seats, what choice do Tory MPs have?
Many of us (and I mean many) have simply been waiting it out for Sunak to lose the election and for Kemi – they’d surely learnt their lesson now – to take over as she should have done before. Yet the Tory party, if those odds are right, are about to self-harm once again.
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