A moratorium on personal attacks in the campaign to replace Rishi Sunak has been agreed by the Tory candidates, foreswearing in-fighting. Expect it to last as long as a back-to-work suntan.
As the first round of the lengthy leadership race moves towards the ouster of weaker contenders like Mel “never hit my” Stride and Priti Patel (an outrider for Boris Johnson who is too preoccupied on vaycay in Greece to be much of an in-rider), it leaves Kemi Badenoch facing off against Robert Jenrick, with a twist of James Cleverly in third place and Tom Tugendhat as the metropolitan/London Tory choice, which probably spells doom.
