Gerry: there must be an appearance element to this? Johnson ran closer to the centre but is a barely constrained id in athleisure wear. Sunak dresses expensively and is comfortable with finance types so is coded as technocratic despite being far more to the right.

Loving the right wing “thinkers” pivoting to “Sunak lost because - if anything - he was TOO centrist”

Of course the titanic mind of Lord Frost got in first

I will say, charitably, that "winning from the centre" hasn't been tried for a while.

I mean it’s all comparative but Johnson, the Tory right’s lost prince, was undoubtedly way closer to the centre than Sunak

there must be an appearance element to this? Johnson ran closer to the centre but is a barely constrained id in athleisure wear. Sunak dresses expensively and is comfortable with finance types so is coded as technocratic despite being far more to the right.

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