ConHome’s latest survey among Tory members will make happy reading for Team Kemi. The shadow housing secretary pips the polls at 34%, twice as many has her rival Robert Jenrick, who trails second at 18%. She also beats all other candidates at a head-to-head contest…
A Tory insider says:
“It’s looking like a landslide with the members, as it was in 2022. But back then MPs sent them Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak… and we know how that turned out. Are we really going to make the same mistake again?”
Meanwhile, MPs are preparing to vote in the first round to whittle down the number of candidates. All to play for…?
The day after Starmer U-turned and refused to blame Trump for the war Rachel Reeves told the Mirror:
“Obviously no sensible person is a supporter of the Iranian regime, but to start a conflict without being clear what the objectives are and not being clear about how you are going to get out of it, I do think that is a folly and it is one that is affecting families here in the UK but also families in the US and around the world.”
