Sticking to broad platitudes and waiting for your opponent to fail is the wrong approach for a new-look Tory party

The long Conservative leadership contest is at last in the final straight. On Saturday, we’ll find out whether Kemi Badenoch or Robert Jenrick is going to shoulder the extraordinary challenge of rebuilding the party from one of its most shattering election defeats.

While the contest has been running since August, it feels as though we’ve had barely any time to really focus on this final choice. The 1922 Committee allocated only three weeks between the final round of MP voting and the close of polls for the membership vote – and with ballots arriving a week into that period, the real campaign was probably even shorter.

Henry Hill is deputy editor of ConservativeHome