Tory leadership candidates fighting like rats in a sack is a terrible look

Fateful eight IS it too much to hope that the eight remaining Tory candidates for PM stop knifing each other? The leadership race so far has been littered with dodgy dossiers, barbs and poisonous briefings. Voters are already aghast at the scandals under Boris Johnson. Now they see his potential successors fighting like rats in […]

Fateful eight

IS it too much to hope that the eight remaining Tory candidates for PM stop knifing each other?

The leadership race so far has been littered with dodgy dossiers, barbs and poisonous briefings.

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Tory leadership candidates fighting like rats in a sack is a terrible look (pictured front-runner Rishi Sunak)[/caption]

Voters are already aghast at the scandals under Boris Johnson. Now they see his potential successors fighting like rats in a sack. It’s a terrible look.

This contest ought instead to showcase the often brilliant thinking that exists in the Tory Party — and contrast it with Labour’s vacuity.

Kemi Badenoch, for example, seems fearless in her beliefs and committed to tackling problems based not on ideology or groupthink but on evidence. We applaud that.

The field is still crowded. But it is vital MPs pass the two best, and most electable, candidates to the party’s members.

We want a straight-talking problem-solver. But whoever prevails MUST appeal to the Tories’ 2019 voters both in the Red Wall seats and southern constituencies now at risk. Lose those and it won’t matter what any Tory’s vision is.

They’ll be in impotent opposition, watching a Lab/Lib/SNP coalition of chaos ruin and break up the country.

Picket fence

WE’VE said Labour is beatable.

Yesterday alone provided ample proof.

Keir Starmer — who lied about respecting the Brexit vote, campaigned to make an anti-Semite Prime Minister, then became Labour leader on a false prospectus — now aims to hoodwink voters over strikes too.

For weeks he has sat on the fence and begged his frontbenchers to avoid picket lines. It’s all for show.

In secret he has apparently reassured the militant rail union Aslef of his staunch support.

Meanwhile Labour’s big plan for today was a doomed, time-wasting no-confidence vote in Boris Johnson.

Did they miss him resigning last week? Or are pointless stunts all Labour has?

The sheer infantility of these attention-seeking Twitter addicts is jaw-dropping.

Beeb bungs

SOARING bills won’t bother the BBC’s massed ranks of lavishly paid “talent”.

Half managed to get a rise on their already mind-blowing salaries last year.

In fairness the corporation HAS managed a few savings — helped no end by some rich journos leaving for a commercial broadcaster where they can whine about Brexit and campaign for Labour even more openly.

Even so, the salaries of £300,000 to £400,000-plus still handed out like confetti to mediocre Beeb presenters are as scandalous as ever. God forbid the BBC should ever rein those in.

Why would it, when shivering OAPs can still be forced to find the £159 telly tax or face a fine or ultimately even jail?