That was not supposed to happen. James Cleverly, the favourite to be next leader of the Conservatives, will now not even have the opportunity to face party members, having failed to attract enough votes in the final round of MP voting.
It is now fairly obvious that, either by design or accident, some of his supporters ‘lent’ their votes to other candidates, assuming their man had enough to get through. They were wrong, and on such miscalculations do the cogs of history grind on.
