With six candidates still standing in the leadership battle, our panellists discuss who would make the best prime minister
The question of which leader conceals a bigger question: what party? The past three years have been marked by reckless venality and cynical nationalist posturing under a prime minister with no respect for law or institutions. As well as being a recipe for bad government, that is not very conservative in the traditional sense. Boris Johnson’s successor will either continue in that vein or rehabilitate the Tory party that existed before its de facto merger with Nigel Farage’s Brexit party in 2019. The choice is between conservatism in the style of David Cameron or Donald Trump.
Rafael Behr is a Guardian columnist
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