Now the TV hustings are over, where does that leave us?

I thought that Sunak did well last night. Came across as the most even-tempered and the most competent.

Truss was slightly more impressive than Mordaunt this time. Her only verb seems to be 'deliver' - tho she hasn't done, much. But nor has Mordaunt, whose only adverb seems to be 'incredibly'.

Tugendhat sadly didn't do himself justice, and for some reason he has had an unfair press over the weekend. But he deserves a good ministerial post and will surely get one.

Do not know what to make of Badenoch. She was gratuitously snubbing to Tugendhat, a mistake that showed. I'd never heard of her until she threw her hat in this ring, yet she claims to have sat round every decision-making table and now thinks those decisions were all wrong and she alone knows how to cut through the country's problems. Is she bigging up her previous roles? Anyway I thought her rather an unpleasant woman.

Interesting that none of them wanted the challenge of an early GE.

It was a pity that the presenter told them to challenge one another and then did such a poor job of controlling the discussion.

If I were a tory voter I'd be in despair.