It’s a tricky business plotting to oust your leader and take the top job for yourself.

On the one hand, it doesn’t pay to be too overt, as Andy Burnham found out when challenging Keir Starmer at Labour conference in Liverpool.

But on the other, the rank and file need to know you are not only ready, but the person for the job, should an opening appear . New Feature

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Which is why some of those watching Robert Jenrick this week at the Tory conference in Manchester were not entirely taken in by his professions of loyalty to Kemi Badenoch.

“There was a leadership election and the party made its choice,” he said at a fringe event on Monday hosted by The Spectator when asked if he would make another tilt for the leadership.

“Kemi is ou

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