The Long Goodbye.

[Khandro]

Is this not only 'goodbye', but a very long goodbye & oblivion?

Kemi Badenoch is the clear frontrunner in a poll of Tory members on who should take over from Rishi Sunak.

The survey by the influential grassroots website Conservative Home on who should be the next Tory leader put the shadow housing secretary on 26%.

Former immigration minister Robert Jenrick and ex-security minister Tom Tugendhat are joint second with 13% each, half the score of Ms Badenoch.

Right-winger Suella Braverman, the former home secretary, is next with 10%, while shadow home secretary James Cleverly takes 9%.

The Express.

[youngmafbog]

Interesting.

Guess they dont want the Reform voters back.  Perhaps they should just rename the Party the LibCons and have done with it.

If true Kemi & Co should consider moving to Reform, there would be no hope for the proper Tory Party to return.

[Old_Geezer]

The members will select from the options left them.

 

Not as keen on Kemi ever since she seemed to grow lukewarm on the very issues she was concerning herself with previously, and supporting the cabinet line instead. Seemed very career focused. Whereas Suella continued to campaign for actually getting things done.

[Atheist]

If the tories follow the lead of their members they will slide further down the slippery-slip to oblivion.

[youngmafbog]

//If the tories follow the lead of their members they will slide further down the slippery-slip to oblivion.//

Eh?  They have slipped into oblivion listening to right-on liberals like you.  They are a Conservative Party not a liberal one so need to listen to thier members. 

The PArty is the members long term.

[Khandro]

Conservative Party, with a large capital C or they are finished.

I've nothing against Kemi Badenoch personally but she isn't going to be the future, I don't see her as a leader either nationally or on the World stage.

For saying so she would probably acuse me of racism, sexism & many other isms, bring it on. David Tennant said some unpleasant thing about her but it wasn't because she was black, which is what she accused him of.

Many people on the right, including me, have had enough of the Conservatives insisting they & they alone can be trusted.                                                                                           Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss & Sunak one after the other have destroyed the Conservative Party's ability to be seen as fiscally capable, or anything other than the party of open borders.

[jourdain2]

The Tories do seem to want to become irrelevant.  I was quite interested in Kemi at first - but she hedged a lot and gave me the impression (eventually) that she would back down on unpopular and necessary moves.  So I downgraded her in my list of possible candidates.

As ymb says, they don't seem to understand where their support came from or why those voters have joined Reform. 

The UK does need a strong opposition and I feel despairing at the moment. 

[Gromit]

The member are usually given 2 names to choose from. Badenoch will win the Parliamentary poll but the members will choose Jenrke.   
with so many of their potential leaders failing to get elected, they are choosing from C listers. And will get a poor leader, leading a vastly diminished rump of a party.   And I am not sure the divisions that have torn the party apart for decades have been lanced by the huge cull of MPs, the infighting has already started.   
A lengthy spell in Opposition is on the cards. 

[THECORBYLOON]

There was talk of leaving the vote only to the MPs, with no input from Party members.

[Old_Geezer]

Who di they think they are ?

Reform ?