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<\/p>\nAfter two rounds of the Tory leadership contest it is already clear that whoever eventually wins faces a huge challenge in putting Humpty Dumpty together again.<\/p>\n
The Tory party is badly split and the divisions are becoming more acrimonious by the day.<\/p>\n
Yesterday\u2019s result did not really shift the dial in terms of the overall contest, but the debate became even more fractious.<\/p>\n
Rishi Sunak remains on course to make the final two but cannot yet be certain of it. Insurgent candidate Penny Mordaunt continued to make ground but could not shake off Liz Truss\u2019s terrier-like campaign.<\/p>\n
And things are being said by senior Tories about their colleagues that cannot be unsaid. Tom Tugendhat, whose centrist campaign appeared to be faltering yesterday, has described it as a \u2018knife fight in a phone box\u2019. Even those who survive will emerge bloodied.<\/p>\n
Insults were flying freely. Lord Frost, who was poised to back Miss Truss last night, began the day by putting the boot into Miss Mordaunt, who served as his junior minister.<\/p>\n
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Liz Truss, Rishi Sunak, Penny Mordaunt, Tom Tugendhat, and Kemi Badenoch are the remaining five candidates for Tory leadership<\/p>\n
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In the second round Rishi Sunak received 101 votes and Penny Mordaunt 83 – adding 16 to her previous tally – after another frenzied day at Westminster that saw Foreign Secretary Liz Truss appeal for the party’s right wing to unite behind her\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Officially launching her campaign this morning, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss appealed for Tories to unite behind her, saying she can be ‘trusted to deliver’ and can ‘hit the ground running’ after taking on the EU over Brexit and Vladimir Putin over Ukraine<\/p>\n
She was, he said, not tough enough to be PM and prone to going awol. In the end he had to ask Boris Johnson to move her on.<\/p>\n
Mr Sunak\u2019s team have suggested that those like Miss Truss, who are proposing big tax cuts, are economically illiterate.<\/p>\n
Jacob Rees-Mogg has said he would not serve Mr Sunak because of his \u2018disloyalty\u2019. Off the record, allies of Mr Johnson have dubbed the former chancellor a \u2018treacherous b*****d\u2019.<\/p>\n
Suella Braverman said Miss Mordaunt was too woke to ever win her support, and took a swipe at Miss Truss by saying the fact she voted Remain six years ago still cast a shadow over her suitability for the top job.<\/p>\n
She later made up for this when sources said she would give her backing to the Foreign Seretary.<\/p>\n
For their part, Miss Truss\u2019s allies earlier branded Mrs Braverman and her supporters as \u2018idiots\u2019 after the Attorney General refused to drop out of the contest yesterday morning, despite clearly being destined for the chop.<\/p>\n
The scrutiny of Miss Mordaunt is understandable \u2013 even necessary \u2013 given her meteoric rise from unknown minister to a favourite to be Britain\u2019s next PM.<\/p>\n
But the wider infighting is in danger of becoming endemic. In his final days in office Mr Johnson warned disgruntled ministers that the Conservative Party was becoming \u2018ungovernable\u2019.<\/p>\n
Even with his massive electoral mandate and giant personality he could not ultimately hold things together. There is now a real danger that the party will fall apart under a new leader.<\/p>\n
And Labour will be there to help every step of the way. A senior member of Keir Starmer\u2019s team gleefully revealed yesterday that the party has already begun a dossier recording every blue-on-blue attack.<\/p>\n
Every insult hurled now will be thrown back at the new leader in September. And every wound will be self-inflicted.<\/p>\n