More silence from Boris after rivals’ plain talking hits the buffers

At the lobby hustings, the candidates largely tried to give straight answers. It didn’t go well. The Tory leadership circus rolls on. This time for a hustings arranged for lobby journalists in Westminster, where the format was more individual than group therapy, with each candidate free to explain – without interruption from the others – how their relationship with reality had irretrievably broken down. Though still without Boris Johnson, the Conservative party’s very own