The next Tory leader can still win big by reaching out to working-class voters

There is only one catch in the coming Tory leadership election, and that is a Catch-22. Whoever succeeds Theresa May will need to work out how to build a new coalition of voters and supporters to win in future, but before that they cannot afford to lose their existing coalition of MPs. Yet divisions among Tories in the House of Commons risk making it impossible to build any future, winning coalition. The facts are as follows. The Conservatives, even with DUP support, no longer have a working majority. Their MPs are split between those who want no deal, those who want to leave with a deal, and those who want to stop Brexit