We’d be better off picking someone at random and giving them keys to No 10

Which candidate was shit, but not shit enough to make a difference? Photograph: Matt Frost/ITV/REX/ShutterstockThere was a brief frisson of excitement when someone said that Jason McCartney was in the spin room for the ITV leadership debate in Manchester. No one knew the former North Melbourne Aussie rules footballer and current list manager at the Greater Western Sydney Giants was in town. Then the excitement died a little. It was a different Jason McCartney. Jason McCartney, the former Tory MP