Want to know the problem, Tories? You’re … weird. And even your own tribe thinks so

The Conservative leadership candidates also come off as weird, for their obsessive focus on things no one else is talking about: leaving the European convention on human rights; a cap on migrants (and whose cap is the lowest); the scourge of woke. Things were different when, in government, they set the agenda – like it or loathe it, when they talked about culture wars, they were at least dancing to their own tune. Now they’re still doing that quite frantic dance to a different tune, it comes off as still loathsome – but also plain weird.