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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
John Crace

Moderation out and madness to the fore in the Tories’ Birmingham echo chamber

Kemi Badenoch
It’s Kemi Badenoch who seems to best understand that no idea can ever be too idiotic for the Tory members who get to choose the party leader. Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters

See it from the point of view of the Fearless Four. You’ve already seen off the mighty challenge of Priti Patel and Mel Stride, latter-day Tory titans both, so now you’re through to the Birmingham eliminator.

You’ve disappeared through the wormhole into the mephitic swamp where any intelligent life comes to die. Where only the clinically deranged and terminally deluded are to be found. Where the sanest voice is Michael Fabricant’s rug pleading with its owner to be allowed to go home. Welcome to the Tory party conference.

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