Benedict Rogers: Character, values and dignity. Why I am voting for Hunt.
We don’t need a ‘Brexiteer’ leader, we need a unifier, a leader who is not marked by labels but by their ability to implement the referendum result.
We don’t need a ‘Brexiteer’ leader, we need a unifier, a leader who is not marked by labels but by their ability to implement the referendum result.
Each week, our panel of John O’Sullivan, Rachel Wolf, Trevor Phillips, Tim Montgomerie and Marcus Roberts will analyse and assess what’s happening.
Its members must be signed up to leaving on October 31. Here’s a rough draft of what the top team might look like.
Plus: Nine of the ten original candidates have been on my show. When will you let me interview you in depth, Boris Johnson?
From the blog of the University of Liverpool academic: his detailed breakdown of the contest.
In the end, Tory MPs plumped for safety rather than risk, as they see it – and that meant putting through the Foreign Secretary against Johnson.
Hunt’s people insist he can surprise Johnson.
Jokes continue to be told, but it would be wrong to suggest the contest has been fought in a spirit of unwearying amity.
Our columnist is interviewing each of the Conservative leadership candidates on his LBC show – here’s the eighth.
Much of politics is teamwork. Can he now create a coalition among Tory MPs, not to mention Party members, that builds on his appeal to many voters?
One more day, two more ballots at most – and then we’re through to the membership stage of the contest.
Stewart’s voters are the most hostile to Johnson. Will they switch disproportionately to the man they may think is best placed to give the front-runner a hard time?
Here’s our best stab at who is voting for whom, and this list will be updated each morning, as the contest continues.
Will Stewart’s transfers now move most to Javid, if he stays in, or to Hunt or to Gove in tomorrow’s fourth ballot?
The arrival of a new Prime Minister might offer some opportunity to reset the relationship.