Arise, Sir Malcolm - the Tory Unity Candidate

The ScotsmanJune 01, 2005

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WHO is Sir Malcolm Rifkind? As one of the few remaining Tory grandees, the new MP for Kensington & Chelsea is finding unfamiliarity a problem: the House of Commons he returned to last month has changed, and wants to know where he fits in.

Would he ever wear a tie at the weekends? Does he have many gay friends? He didn't, by any chance, grow up in a council flat? Such issues have high, almost totemic significance to the fractious Conservative Party right now as it chooses its leader.

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Arise, Sir Malcolm - the Tory Unity Candidate

So Sir Malky is being viewed - to the point of being stalked - by various Tory sects who are holding out for a hero: a big beast who can both square up to Gordon Brown and, most of all, crucify the dastardly David Davis.

If the leadership vote was held tomorrow, Mr Davis would most certainly win. He is by far the most organised and has ass...

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