Shadow Home Secretary James Cleverly
JAMES CLEVERLY called for a “post mortem” into the Tory election rout as “bitter infighting” over replacing Rishi Sunak as leader continued today.
The shadow home secretary’s comments came as an MP accused the committee that sets the rules for the leadership contest of being “bent.”
Suella Braverman also called Reform an “existential threat” to the party and Kemi Badenoch reportedly used Mr Sunak’s first shadow cabinet meeting to criticise his campaign and Ms Braverman.
Some thinkers and authors on the right are openly discussing the possibility that the historically successful party of the British ruling class may be exhausted
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