Katy Balls
(Picture: Evening Standard)Move out of the way, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak, there’s a new generation of Tories in town. The flavour of the month in the leadership contest is those untainted by Boris Johnson. Older candidates are finding themselves cast out — Nadhim Zahawi and Jeremy Hunt fell on the scrap heap last night — in the place of younger colleagues who could give the party a makeover after the chaos of the last few years.
Recent polls of the membership have upset the incumbents and aided the insurgents. A ConHome poll put Penny Mordaunt as the favourite to be the next leader, followed closely behind in second place by Kemi Badenoch. While Mordaunt has some cabinet experience — dating back to the Theresa May years — Badenoch has never gone above junior minister.
