Tories choose Brexit over NI: True blues show true colours

This week our neighbours, or at least a tiny minority of them, will select the next leader of the Conservative Party and, by extension, Britain’s prime minister Theresa May’s successor.

It requires a reckless generosity to even pretend that any of the contenders seem blessed with the statesmanship — there are no women in contention — an increasingly divided, stubborn and nativist Britain needs. A YouGov survey of Conservative Party members published yesterday shows how that regression spirals towards something incomprehensible and, well, bonkers.