One thing unites Tories in affluent Beaconsfield: moving on from Johnson

Local Conservatives Andrew Wood and Jaspal Chhokar. Chhokar says Penny Mordaunt is the candidate most likely to re-establish the party in the one-nation tradition. Photograph: Linda Nylind/The Guardian

On a sun-drenched common, two supporters of the Tory leadership candidate Penny Mordaunt, Andrew Wood and Jaspal Chhokar, periodically pause as yet another truck from the HS2 rail project rumbles through a constituency that is home to one of Britain’s largest local Conservative parties.

While the scheme weighed heavily in the Tories’ byelection loss in neighbouring Chesham and Amersham, raising questions about the party’s so-called blue wall in southern England, the din is also a reminder here in Beaconsfield of the cocktail of factors that caused Boris Johnson’s downfall.