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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
John Crace

The Tories’ Fearless Four battle on to the end. Alas, that’s just the beginning

Kemi Badenoch, Robert Jenrick, James Cleverly and Tom Tugendhat on the conference stage.
The Conservative party’s leadership rivals. Photograph: Neil Hall/EPA

Welcome, my friends, to the Show That Never Ends. At least, that’s the way it feels. Hard to believe, after weeks of nonsense and four days of the Fearless Four saying the same thing minute after minute, that we’ve still got a month of the Tory leadership election to go. I guess we just need to be thankful for small mercies: we may not be at the beginning of the end, but we are at the end of the beginning.

God it’s been one hell of a slog. People have died, long service medals have been won and my therapy bills have gone through the roof. Spare a thought for those who have had to listen to all this doggybollox.

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