At this rate they’ll have enough for a football team. Although we can’t rule out the possibility of fouls, own goals and someone trying to take the ball home when it all turns nasty. So the field of Conservative leadership contenders welcomes Sajid Javid, the home secretary, who announced his candidacy on Twitter, in what we are told is a sign of doing things differently. (Although not to be confused with Jesse Norman’s THIRTY-THREE tweet thread which sounded like he was going to run, and then didn’t.) As the line-up grows, and the pressure from Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party mounts, it further exposes the inherent contradiction about the people who will choose them as Tory leader, and the people they…

Source: The Times May 28, 2019 08:02 UTC