How did James Cleverly become front-runner in the Tory leadership contest?

How did James Cleverly become front-runner in the Tory leadership contest?

How did James Cleverly become front-runner in the Tory leadership contest? It really is turning into a race to the bottom (of the barrel).

Tory MPs voted to choose the last three candidates today (Tuesday, October 8, 2024) – and, amazingly, put Cleverly on top with 39 votes. Second was Robert Jenrick with 31 and third was Kemi Badenoch with 30. Tom Tugendhat was knocked out with only 20 votes.

Jenrick and Badenoch will now be battling to scoop up Tugendhat’s votes – and there’s no guarantee that Cleverly won’t get some of them too.

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They’ll all have to hurry, though, because the next vote is tomorrow (Wednesday, October 9).

The final two will then be put before the wider Conservative Party membership, who will vote to elect the new leader by November 2.

What a terrible choice!

And let’s remember that the people doing the choosing are, mostly, the same who elected Liz Truss as Tory leader and (at the time) prime minister.

Does anyone feel optimistic about the end result of this?


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