Thank you for this post: Very informative — and, if I may say, very encouraging, as well.
For those who have not been following political events on the streets of the UK, here are two videos that should help give you the background you need to understand this post:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mExVasEX-lk
and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Omh_4QqFccM
As one poster has already suggested, Tory leadership might well be likened to our own Sen McCain.