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Conservative Party leadership candidate Robert Jenrick ahead of a speech at Old Queen Street Cafe, central London, outlining his plan to lower taxes, cut regulation and grow the economy, October 16, 2024
TORIES put their worst foot forward again today as their leadership contest descended into a mixture of the bizarre and the bad-mouthing.
Former cabinet minister Michael Gove, now taking up the editorship of the party’s house magazine the Spectator, attacked hard-right leadership hopeful Robert Jenrick for “looking like a Tory.”
Mr Gove said that “one of Robert’s weaknesses is he looks like a typical Tory politician,” before conceding that he himself was a “Tory boy.”
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
The Tory conference was a pseudo-sacred affair, with devotees paying homage in front of Thatcher’s old shrouds — and your reporter, initially barred, only need mention he’d once met her to gain access. But would she consider what was on offer a worthy legacy, asks ANDREW MURRAY
A ‘new phase’ for Starmerism is fairly similar to the old phase – only worse. ANDREW MURRAY takes a look