Robert Jenrick is a "voracious reader of the civil war", a friend of his tells our Tali Fraser That could stand him in good stead given how Tory conference in Birmingham is currently unfolding... Our profile of the bookies' favourite to succeed Sunak www.politicshome.com/news/article...
Unashamedly provincial in his background but now with multi-million-pound properties, taking the battle to Ukip and now Reform, and trying Ozempic ...
Fancies himself as Lord Protector no doubt.
The more I see of Jenrick, Cleverly, Tugendhat and BadEnough, the more I think PMQs will be a bloodbath. Starmer will do to them as Blair did to Hague, IDS, and Howard.
Which Civil War? Cromwell, the Confederacy, Russia after WW1, Nigeria?
Will he depose King Charles?
Given how USA-phile the Tory right are, I had to check whether that was the English/British civil war, or the American one! Glad I did, actually, as the article was interesting.