• Polly Toynbee is a Guardian columnistKate Maltby: Penny Mordaunt deserves real credit for trying to make Brexit workImagine a Tory prime minister who believed seriously in tackling the climate emergency. The next Tory leader needs to be someone who voted leave. In fact – in a threat to Gove, Raab and Johnson – Tory leadership contests are often won by whoever has the fewest kamikaze enemies. It follows that the two qualities any Tory leader should possess are being halfway sensible, yet trusted enough by hard Brexiters to get away with another delay. We need a Tory leader with the political capacity to do this.

Source: The Guardian May 24, 2019 11:03 UTC