'Be Less Normal': Have Conservative MPs Just Handed the Next Election to Labour?

The next Tory leader will be either Kemi Badenoch or Robert Jenrick, in what looks like a dream result for Keir Starmer's party. But is it really?

Looking Right: Kemi Badenoch and Robert Jenrick make it to the final round of the Conservative leadership contest

Last week James Cleverly urged the Conservative party to be “more normal”.

Today they responded by kicking him out of their leadership contest.

The result is that Conservative members will now be given a choice between the two least normal of all the available candidates - Kemi Badenoch and Robert Jenrick.

Of these two, the one who just last week suggested she believes maternity pay and the minimum wage are “excessive” and called on tens of thousands of civil servants to be sent to prison, is now the favourite.

If being “more normal” was the aim, then the Conservative party looks determined to deliver the complete opposite.

So does this mean that the party has just thrown away their last remaining chance of winning the next general election, or could one of these two candidates actually end up causing Keir Starmer far more problems than it now appears?