Tory MPs stride out in the wrong direction

OK, there's more to political leadership than having the right strategy, and Mel Stride has never been the most charismatic of politicians, but I can't help noticing that Conservative MPs have just voted out the leadership candidate who has so far made the most sense.

Here he is being quoted by the Standard yesterday:

"And what that is going to need is somebody that can lead our party over months and over years to get the right policy platform together that we can unite around to reach out to those voters that we lost to Reform, but equally not to forget those at the centre, those that we lost to Labour and the Liberal Democrats."

It's not just Tory members who are growing weirder, Tory MPs are too.