After the coup, the contest that will expose faultlines in a fractured Conservative party

Rishi Sunak, the ex neighbour from No 11, is off to a strong start … but bad blood seems likely, whoever moves in at No 10

a senior Tory MP sat down in a quiet corner of the House of Commons and agonised alone over what to do.

But everyone was clear, it had gone too far. The coup against Johnson had a momentum that was unstoppable. What worried these Tory MPs most was not Johnson’s fate but what would follow. “I think the party will struggle to survive this,” said one former minister on Wednesday afternoon. “I think we will split.”

A former Tory minister said on Friday he feared weeks of unseemly beauty parading, in which candidates indulged in policy “arms races” to win support. Kemi Badenoch MP, the levelling up and equalities minister before she resigned last week, has declared herself a candidate for the Tory leadership.

One government insider said it was clear that Johnson and his people would not go quietly, and that their next task would be to stop Sunak at all costs.

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