Looks like the next UK Conservative leader stands a good chance of being a right-wing weirdo.

Following a surprise outcome of the leadership election, the two prospects MPs are putting to party members are Kemi Badenoch and Robert Jenrick. That’s a shame.

The desire from Cleverly to see his party getting to be a bit less weird - perhaps in reference to a current attack line against the US Republicans - seems to have failed:

During the party’s conference in Birmingham last week, Cleverly had urged party members to be “more normal”

The same kind of subject was echoed by Nadine Dorries in one of her rare good opinions:

Nadine Dorries, the Tory former cabinet minister, said on X: “MPs had one job. To be normal and vote for the person who is best placed to lead you. It really wasn’t hard.”

That said, some in Labour are apparently excited at the prospect:

In a jokey reference to the government’s donations row, a Labour MP asked: “Does Tory leadership result need to be declared as a gift?”