Good morning. As parliamentary recess comes to an end, the Conservative party is looking to six leadership candidates to set out how they would protect it from the same fate.
While the situation for the Tories isn’t quite terminal, there’s no doubt that the task is a massive one. If they take the wrong direction as they try to decide whether to tell voters they have been too right wing, too left wing, or too incompetent, victory at the next election will be a very distant prospect. But nobody agrees on exactly what the right direction might be.
