What the Conservatives can learn from a potato head

ANALYSIS: The Tories should approach the leadership contest as though they have one shot.

A party ruined at the ballot box after years of leadership chaos, an empty agenda and caught in the cross-hairs of a fierce battle about its political direction. Sounds familiar, right?

The above refers to the current state of the British Conservative Party which descended on Birmingham on Sunday for their annual conference.

But as of two years ago, it c…