Matthew Parris Matthew Parris

Why not let the MPs choose their man, then give ordinary Tories the right of veto?

Why not let the MPs choose their man, then give ordinary Tories the right of veto?

issue 28 May 2005

Much nonsense is being written about new ways for the Conservative party to choose its leader. The plan being floated — that MPs might offer constituency chairmen a shortlist to choose from — is absurd. It would have produced Iain Duncan Smith. Everybody can guess who the five would be this time, but one or two stand little chance of winning their colleagues’ hearts.

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