The Tory leader returned the party to a normal opposition party. But he doesn’t have the chops to be PM. Here’s the Guardian’s list of potential successors, one of whom might be a future prime minister, after Labour’s Gordon Brown.
ANOTHER ONE: By now, we’re used to finding out that many of the most ferocious homophobes on the right have gay offspring – Phyllis Schlafly, Alan Keyes, Pete Knight. Now we discover that others are actually tortured gay men themselves. I feel bad for the mayor of Spokane. I don’t like the witch-hunts of these conflicted, desperate, if often malicious people. But the Roy Cohn syndrome of closeted gay men persecuting others is, alas, a real one. And it reaches far beyond Spokane into the highest echelons of the Republican party.
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