By Kristian Niemietz Why are none of the Conservative leadership candidates talking about the economy? It’s down to a self-fulfilling cycle of pandering to pensioners and alienating younger workers, says Kristian Niemietz The Tory Party’s leadership campaign has so far heavily focused on culture war issues. I don’t mean this in a pejorative way. We are in a culture war, and it matters. But given the nature of their defeat in last July’s election, I would have thought that there had to be room for at least one outspoken “It’s the economy, stupid!” candidate. Britain’s economic performance since…