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Politics

An early election is beginning to look inevitable for the next Tory leader

15 June 2019

9:00 AM

15 June 2019

9:00 AM

There’s a joke going around the various warring tribes in the Tory leadership contest. They might not win this time, they tell each other, but not to worry: ‘We’ll all meet again in November.’ The point is that whoever succeeds Theresa May is doomed: the 31 October deadline will pass not with Britain leaving the European Union but with a political crisis and a general election that will be won by Jeremy Corbyn.

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