Given there are few things MPs enjoy more than amateur electoral game theory and claims of dirty tricks, the next 24 hours are shaping up to be quite an experience for the Conservative parliamentary party – not to mention for the rest of us.
After the elimination of Kemi Badenoch on Tuesday afternoon, one thing seems clear: barring a fairly extraordinary upset, Rishi Sunak is home and hosed in the battle to become one of the two candidates put to Conservative members to select a new party leader, and thus the UK’s prime minister.
