"We don't want to make it harder for intellectually able people to be Tory party candidates. The Tory party, when it's elected, has to be able to form a government and it's not going to be able to form a government if it has potted plants as candidates simply to make up quotas.
... the "potted plants" he referred to are those who have been State-educated...
The man is deeply unpleasant, smug and conceited. I cannot find one redeeming quality about him. Yet, in 2020, he was rated the 9th most popular politician. What am I missing?
I don't dislike him because he's a Tory, but because his superiority complex is nauseating.