Yesterday I tweeted that there’s “only about 70,000 members of the Conservative Party. Basically a dwindling coterie of some of the worst people in Britain are about to choose a candidate from a selection of some of the most repugnant politicians in the UK. That person will be our Prime Minister.”

That was untrue.

It turns out the Conservative Party has nearer 120,000 members in the UK (source Laura McAllister & Roger Awan-Scully of Cardiff University).

So that means that 0.18% of the UK will soon decide the next Prime Minister of the UK & the fate of the UK [from @BenGwalchmai ].

Out of the current front-runners: Boris Johnson: 51% Dominic Raab: 19% Michael Gove: 10% Jeremy Hunt: 9% Rory Stewart: 6% Andrea Leadsom: 5% s ix are millionaires of which two are old Etonians, five are Oxford graduates and one is a woman who won’t win [h/t Otto English].



That’s sobering.