The whole Conservative leader-selection process is straight out of the Middle-Ages. Positively feudal. Top Tory Lords gather at their metaphoric Round Table until they select the last two. Then vassals are sent out to gather the votes of the yeomen. Perhaps they could shorten the whole sorry shambles by deciding the final conflict with a modernised jousting tournament: top-range mobile phones on selfie sticks to replace lances, open-top Bentleys serving as horses. You could sell tickets!