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THE Tory leadership contest descended from farce to pantomime yesterday after senior party figures cast Justice Secretary Michael Gove in the role of King Rat.
Gove, who yesterday stabbed long-term ally Boris Johnson in the back while announcing his own candidacy for the leadership, faced calls to pull out of the race — a move which many feel would leave the field wide open for Home Secretary Theresa May.
The Justice Secretary faced furious, and frequently Shakespearian, accusations of treachery from Mr Johnson’s allies after his hatchet job on his former colleague in which he claimed that the former London mayor was incapable of providing the leadership the country needed.
Once derided by Farage as a ‘fraud,’ Jenrick has defected to Reform, bringing experience and political ruthlessness to the populist right — and raising the unsettling prospect of a Farage-led movement with a seasoned operative pulling the strings, says ANDREW MURRAY
As the PM and his chief of staff’s blunders have mounted up, ANDREW MURRAY wonders who among Labour’s diminished ‘soft left’ might make a bid for the leadership
