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…?
Speaking at his speech on how to achieve “progressive capitalism” Wes Streeting fired a dig and Andy Burnham:
“Bond markets are not bond villains and fiscal rules matter.”
