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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
John Crace

‘It’s great to be here’: watching the Tories turning farce into annihilation

Robert Jenrick delivers a speech at Policy Exchange, in Westminster, central London.
If Honest Bob is the answer to the country’s problems then we are all hopelessly screwed. Photograph: Jordan Pettitt/PA

A day on from the latest leadership ballot and still no one in the Tory party can quite work out how Kemi Badenoch and Robert Jenrick made it through to the last two. So what chance do the rest of us have? All we can do is applaud them for their comic timing.

In one corner we have KemiKaze. A woman who is actively dangerous. And in the other we have an overgrown schoolboy who is dangerously stupid. Honest Bob makes Jimmy Dimly look like an intellectual giant.

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