"No one with an ounce of intelligence would touch the Tory leadership job at the moment. Two years of utter hell, probable civil unrest when the fuel hikes really bite and then after the election consigned to history as one of the worst Prime Ministers ever."
You need to be an arrogant egotist to lead a major political party (a) to fight off the competition, and (b) a self belief that you alone have the vision, tenacity, etc etc to be a success.
Jeremy Hunt who was in the last two with Boris failed to progress this time around. In interview he was quite clear "you only get one chance at the job, I had mine, and will likely never get another".
Blind ambition and the reality that you get only one chance of fame is what drives Rishi and Liz. The winner goes into the history books, the loser will be no more than a footnote.
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