The
BBC reports:
Michael Howard has been crowned Tory leader after winning the one-horse race to replace Iain Duncan Smith.
A few weeks back,
Oliver Kamm explained why Iain Duncan Smith had to go.
IDS is not talented; if he is bright, it isn't evident in anything he says or does. His abrasiveness, intended to project decisiveness, screams weakness. His attempted quips - the threat to shoot Tony Blair, the prediction that the men in grey suits delegated to depose him would leave without their suits - are always witless and sometimes surreal. His attacks on his political opponents are mean-spirited and small-minded. He is inarticulate and intellectually incurious.
I can't wait to read what he thinks of Michael Howard.
