James Cleverly ousted from Tory leadership race in shocking vote 

Reform have the Tories rattled!

How was Mrs. Badenoch's utterances on Maternity Pay a "mistake"? It was simply her opinion which is founded upon good evidence. I loathe this anti-Kemi campaign which these journalists have embarked upon.

The Lady will hammer hopeless Starmer.

Maternity pay simply feeds house price inflation. You might as well just hand the cash direct to property sellers. My mother didn't need maternity pay to stay at home 50 years ago. It doesn't make parents better off, they just think it does. Want to help parents? Build more houses and stop flooding the country with immigrants. Economics 101. Hope the party choose Kemi.

Michael Green was the brilliant numbers man working for James Cleverly. I'm dumbfounded by how it could possibly have gone so horribly wrong while trying to cross the final hurdle.

glad the Times Radio campaign against Kemi failed

Conservatives never learn.

Lending votes? Not so Cleverly done!

How are you both in your jobs? The dark haired lady couldnt hide her disgust at the result and the supposed politics lady seemed to think this was not would happen. It was always going to be these two for many observers. The party itself had gone to far to the left not just centrists but into labour territory in the last 14yrs. The son-of blair comes to mind. People are crying out for actual traditional values in this country. We had enough of selling this country out since 97 and its why reform are such a danger to both tories and labour. Their policies are across the political spectrum despite the media trying to say they are far right. The majority of this country is right of centre on the political spectrum and lab won this election through their core vote the true believers. The tories lost it on being useless and not delivering what they said they would. People through social media are more political savvy these days and more engaged wether thats anger and disgust at those in parliament these days im not sure, but if lab carry on as they are they will get slaughtered at the next election along with the tories because the public have had enough of the lies and sleaze and corruption real or not. Its the look of rich people taking freebies whilst they rob the elderly and probably anyone else whos saved a tiny bit of cash

Ahhh. Poor darlings in the MSM didn't get the person they wanted. Bless their cotton socks.

I hope the Conservative members choose Kemi. It will show me that they have learned nothing from Rishi. It will also be a big boost for Reform and Farage. Not like Reform need a boost. Vote Reform!

The ladies will be knocking back their G&T's tonight.

These are the class of people that gave you 15 years of Tory rule. The ‘commentators’ the mere observers of division and privilege, rather than a core part of its engine. Imagine your new role is to re-establish normalcy with the public; as though you aren’t talking about dangerous extremists whose future role will again be to transfer more public money into private hands. The Tories aren’t choosing between intellectual powerhouses here, or insightful thinkers on modern economies. They are old worn out ideologues still grifting and grappling to save their system of hierarchies. Times radio is not your friend.

Still the same old tired faces that helped Tories to their biggest defeat in decades. Nothing has changed & nothing will change still the same split Tories arguing amongst themselves.

The presenters still talk as if the Conservatives are alive and kicking. They're toast. Reform UK will become the opposition party.

Great to see political pundits with their fingers on the pulse (not).

If the Tories are going to act true to form, Cleverly will get another chance before the end of next year.

MI5 pulled out at the last minute.

Regardless of who the Tory party chooses as their new leader, they will have stiff competition for voters' favor from Nigel Farage and Reform UK.

Another TUT bites the dust

Cleverly was not the right candidate, to much tainted by the last government.

Shame its not starmer who i would like to see ousted.?

Two right wing candidates that’s good, the centre ground conservatives are not needed now.

How the hell has this happened? jiggery pokery of course! Really disappointing.

it was always going to be a black woman ,,,,,,gamble on it !!!!!!!

Times Radio so wrong🤣🤣🤣🤡🤡

"Honest Bob" or "Mad Kemi" , Must be the best news Keir Starmer has had since the General election !

o well bring back boris

May be too much of a centrist.

Looks like the aTories want to stay in opposition.

Cleverly gone good.

The Tories - the gift that keeps on giving - Starmer must think it's Christmas already.

IF Bedenoch wins I give her six months before they ditch her and fix it for Cleverly

The Conservative Party isn't well.

These are the worst two candidates to lead a party that I have ever seen. They are worse than boris, corbyn, only truss could be worse than these two. What a state this country is in

Ooo noo totally useless Wokerati journalists got it wrong 😱😱😨 Why does @times bother employing these lite weights?

What the hell is going on?

Batshit crazy vs L👀ny right.

See you all in another 40 - 50 days after the next time Kemi blames the media establishment for holding a microphone to her mouth and reporting on the horrible policy suggestions that came out of her own mouth.

😂

Doomed….. Cleverly was the only sensible candidate.

Badenoch will win, but who cares...

Tom should have got it, the others are tarnished

james cleverly was the only hope we had left in the conservative party at least he spoke out the others are a waste of time all the back bench back stabbers who took boris down dont deserve a job in politics being a con voter all i can say is rip the cons are done

Irrelevant. VOTE REFORM