The Choice for Britain’s Tories

The Tories’ move to drop from their leadership race a leading moderate is met with ‘open mouthed shock’ and ‘audible gasps of surprise.’

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A Conservative MP, Kemi Badenoch, at Birmingham, England, October 2, 2024. AP/Kin Cheung

Who will lead Britain’s Tories out of the political wilderness? The conservatives in July got a shellacking in the general election with Prime Minister Sunak as the party leader. Now the world’s oldest political party has a choice of two relatively fresh faces to serve as His Majesty’s Loyal Opposition — and, one can hope, lead the way back not only to a majority, but to a revival of conservative principles in a nation that is listing to the left.

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