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.”