Wooing the electorate

摘要

When the Tories meet in Blackpool next week for their annual conference, one thing will be on their minds: how to pick a leader who can pull off the next election. The odds on Ken Clarke—favourite with the Conservative associations-shortened, after the party rank-and-file voted on Tuesday against handing over the final choice of the next leader to MPS. But whether the victor is Mr Clarke or David Davis, the bookies' favourite, the party has a Herculean task simply to overcome Britain's electoral arithmetic.