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in an even bigger earthquake, with more than 50 members of his Government resigning in disgust after yet another sexual harassment scandal in his party.
There’s a phenomenon in corporate life dubbed the ‘glass cliff’, where companies engulfed in crisis pick a female CEO to signal a clean break from the past. The Tories have twice done something similar, handing Theresa May the thankless task of clearing up after the Brexit vote and picking Margaret Thatcher in 1975 after a messy defeat. So what are the chances of a third female leader?
Another contender is Trade Minister Penny Mordaunt, a no-nonsense naval reservist whose friends see her as the unity candidate: a Brexiteer, but capable of appealing to younger, more ‘woke’ voters the Tories usually struggle to reach. Mordaunt was an early champion of LGBT rights who, as Equalities Minister, unhesitatingly declared in Parliament that ‘trans men are men, trans women are women’ and spoke up against sexual harassment after MeToo.
But Sunak’s been on a charm offensive, talking to Grazia last month about being a hands-on dad to his two little girls and the life lessons he learned from his parents. An early poll suggested he might be the Tory best placed to beat Labour’s Keir Starmer. For anyone hankering for more discipline after a messy few months, meanwhile, there’s always the two brisk ex-army officers in the race.
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