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Kevin Maguire: 'The real players in the Tory race are Corbyn and Farage'



Two influential names missing on Tory ballot papers are Jeremy Corbyn and Nigel Farage.

The rivals from the left and right of British politics are dominating the Conservative leadership contest from outside.

Tories live in terror of Labour’s socialist leader, petrified his creation of a fairer country would announce the end of their selfish privileged wealthfare.

And the blue sect’s in awe of the Brexit Party snake oil salesman – slippery Farage, the Thatcherite nationalist many envious Cons wish was back in their party to lead them into unicorn land.

No recent leadership election in a major party has been so influenced by external threats, once-arrogant Tories spooked by devastating results in the European elections and Peterborough by-election.

Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt are an undercard, second-raters reduced to defining themselves against Corbyn and Farage in answers to questions in the Tory Party’s private circus.

ITV inviting Jez and Nige tomorrow night to debate the strengths and weaknesses of Boris and Jeremy would be more illuminating than Johnson and Hunt finally going head-to-head.

The Tory southern male-pale-stale tribe’s almost certainly plumping for Johnson over Hunt when Brexit’s a deranged obsession, the blindly misled unable to see the truth. What a pity both can’t lose, an opportunist Foreign Secretary and his lying predecessor confirming they’re a couple of dangerous charlatans with empty spending promises and tax cuts for themselves.

Both spout nonsense about a tax-imposing, job-destroying, price-rising no-deal Brexit in November.

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Should they actually believe the claptrap they produce to woo Tory Brextremists, perhaps we might be far more worried than if the pair are competitively lying.

Labour’s influential Corbynista John McDonnell urging his leader to embrace fighting to save Britain in Europe with a fresh referendum is a ruthless left-winger preparing for a snap autumn election called by Johnson.

Unspoken publicly in Labour’s high command is a calculation Johnson and Farage, the Tory and Brexit parties, will split the right-wing vote to let Labour win. It’s playing with fire but emphasises why Corbyn and Farage are shaping the Tories.





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