Tomorrow marks our first round of voting in the Tory leadership election. The six candidates standing to replace Rishi Sunak will be initially voted upon by Tory MPs. They will reduce the number of candidates in stages until two go to the membership after the party conference. As it stands, there are six runners and riders. Robert Jenrick, James Cleverly, Priti, Patel, Tom Tugendhat, Kemi Badenoch and Mel Stride. The first question they want to answer is what went wrong. I think Kemi Badenoch put it well at her launch yesterday. ‘This was one of our mistakes. We talked right but governed left,…
