Our updated guide to candidates and supporters as the contest for the next Conservative Party leader proceeds.
The Conservative parliamentary party is described as the most sophisticated electorate in the world, but it can also be the slipperiest.
Having led on the first two rounds, Jenrick now finds himself a full 8 MPs behind Cleverly.
We need a strong and united Conservative Party to be an effective opposition, stand up to this Labour government, and send them back to Opposition at the first possible opportunity.
Kemi Badenoch, Robert Jenrick, and Tom Tugendhat all had more members less likely to vote for them after Birmingham than before – despite our panel ranking experience and likeability last in their criteria for leadership.
The Shadow Foreign Secretary has stormed ahead to take second place on members’ preferences – and for the first time sees off his former Home Office colleague in the head-to-heads.
If you want a real idea of the ‘soft power’ that accrues to a country which allows itself to get mugged by Mauritius (twice), it looks a lot like Members of Parliament getting deported from mighty Djibouti.
The Conservative Party I saw in Birmingham was the most united I have known it in my two and a half years at ConservativeHome.
Badenoch called on the party to be as serious as Keith Joseph was, and “consider every aspect of what the state does and why”.
There is only one prize, and it still won’t be judged by the vast majority of the audience – or handed out, today. The people who will really judge, remain just 119 individuals.
The former Foreign Secretary triumphed in the interview round by selling his wares like a costermonger in the Old Kent Road.
If you were Team Badenoch, you would be a little worried. But even if Sunday’s maternity pay row dominates conversation here in Birmingham, we still have two days to go.
Michael Gove compared himself to James Hunt and Fraser Nelson to Alex Ferguson.
Tory members do not seem to be gathered in corners nursing their undoubted, and understandable emotional bruises from the election. They seem remarkably upbeat.
They might not even make it to the next election before a scandal or vote of no confidence hits them.