So, as far as I can tell, the following things happened: Cleverly supporting MPs freelancing and voting for their preferred second option *and* organised attempts to shape the ballot all producing the outcome no-one but Kemi Badenoch wanted.
You have to laugh. Because the horror is too much otherwise.
Ah, organising two piss-ups in the same brewery, rather than the more common failure mode
Clearly I’m not ‘sophisticated’ enough to see this master strategy…
Oh good. We can look forward to at least a couple of years of PMQs in which Badenrick accuses enemy of the will of the people lefty human rights lawyer Starmer of not being able to define a woman.
When the most sophisticated electorate meets the least sophisticated whipping operation.
I cannot wait for the result if this is from the team with the good whipping
On top of everything it seems like the next Conservative leader will potentially have a legitimacy issue if things don't go well, quite the encore from Keir's genie.
Interested in your thoughts on lottery numbers...
Hmm maybe he is not that great at politics after all. Alas