The Conservative Party has known for months that it was going to choose a new leader this year. The defenestration and departure of Theresa May, the disastrous leader chosen by stitch-up in 2016 and never road-tested in debate until it was too late, did not come as a shock. Why then, with all that time to prepare, has the party hierarchy sanctioned such a terrible closed-shop approach to picking her replacement? This is the next prime minister being chosen, yet the Tories are treating the process like the private proceedings of a golf club, with members choosing their chairman in the bar of the clubhouse. While it is constitutionally legitimate for MPs and party members to pick the next prime minister, many Britons are justifiably…

Source: The Times June 06, 2019 15:56 UTC