Lots of Hard Right UK Conservatives celebrating their leadership choices today, convinced they will be able to stop Reform. So just a reminder that if the Conservatives won every single Reform voter, they *still* wouldn’t have a parliamentary majority.

The fact that they think their election woes are on the far right says an awful lot.

Indeed - and it seems very likely that for every "Reform" voter they do convert they will suffer a legacy voter lost to LD or Greens.

now! but when voters realise that Labour are all talk and zero substance they will be losing votes not gainingnow! but when voters realise that Labour are all talk and zero substance they will be losing votes not gaining

If the competition hated babies, the Tories would look for a leader who cooks and eats babies. (Not so metaphorically). Tories don’t stand for anything except that which gives them control power advantage and the opportunity to feel good by the abuse of ‘others’.

Quite why they are trying to suck this pool dry is beyond comprehension.

They would have won the popular vote though. Chilling

Tory membership dinosaurs were never going to elect Cleverly anyway..

Genuine question: Do they understand their predicament? I am fascinated by their cognitive dissonance if not.

The winning candidate will have to deal with the fact that two-thirds of the PLP did not want them to be leader. How long before letters of no confidence start going in to the Chair of the '22?

Just as Labour’s greatest election asset was Sunak; the Tories greatest asset will be Starmer. When their Party leader is so toxic it makes someone as mediocre as Starmer look competent then they will struggle. The opposition to Labour is more likely on the Left, than the Right.