This is absolutely true, however, it seems slightly off to me that the Tory party didn't even want to canvas their own party members on who the next leader was, just in case the wrong name came out top. Why bother with this election sham ratified by the 1922 committee if they had already decided...
If one thing is constant in politics it's don't trust a politician, May was in the Remain camp but reluctantly, all the sound bites are she was a leaver. Boris was a leaver but mainly so he could oppose Cameron, all his leanings were towards Remain, go figure.
Probably academic now anyway, I thought Theresa May would be PM before the EU referendum vote was even in. Leadsom probably thought the same as I'm sure Murdoch was making all the right noises about how the Times , Sun etc would be backing her right up to the point where they stuck the knife in...
What I found strange was how the BBC reported the story of two women going head to head for the top job in the Tory party, concentrate on their policies or motivation, no of course not, let's focus on shoes. Now i'm not a fan of either but you would think that in todays society we could move...
Interestingly Michael Gove's wife has decided to take a break from the Daily Mail where she was a columnist, maybe Paul Dacre had an opinion as well!!!