Tories can be an unsentimental bunch when sacking - or choosing - the leader of the party. In their current search they seem be motivated less by their preference for one candidate than their animosity to all the others. If my memory serves me correctly, this mindset of grievance and grudge-bearing is what propelled relative outsiders like John Major, William Hague and Iain Duncan Smith to land the top job.
The field of five will have to be whittled down to two, when the final choice will be made not by MPs but by Tory party members, who are overwhelmingly male, white, middle class and aged over fifty. Penny Mordaunt, a name unknown to most people just a couple of weeks ago, has been installed as favourite to win the vote - and thus become Prime Minister - if she is one of the two names on the final ballot.
Licenced last week: a house sold in Beverley...
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