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Shadow Home Secretary James Cleverly
JAMES CLEVERLY called for a “post mortem” into the Tory election rout as “bitter infighting” over replacing Rishi Sunak as leader continued today.
The shadow home secretary’s comments came as an MP accused the committee that sets the rules for the leadership contest of being “bent.”
Suella Braverman also called Reform an “existential threat” to the party and Kemi Badenoch reportedly used Mr Sunak’s first shadow cabinet meeting to criticise his campaign and Ms Braverman.
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
KEITH FLETT traces how the ‘world’s most successful political party’ has imploded since Thatcher’s fall, from nine leaders in 30 years to losing all 16 English councils, with Reform UK symbolically capturing Peel’s birthplace, Tamworth — but the beast is not dead yet