Professor Sir John Curtice suggests leadership candidates will not unite the Right after voters abandoned party for Reform UK

Polling expert John Curtice believes neither Kemi Badenoch nor Robert Jenrick will be able to win back voters and lead the Tories to electoral victory. The long race to replace Rishi Sunak as the Conservative Party leader is now in its final round and party members have until the end of the month to vote for one of the two remaining candidates.

Robert Jenrick said the Tories need a leader who doesn't 'get drawn down rabbit holes' and spend time doing 'battle on Twitter' in a barbed jibe at rival Kemi Badenoch