Personality issues aside, coaches’ ever rising popularity also point to an evolution of party politics, and the internal processes that keep them ticking along. According to Tim Bale, academic and author of The Conservative Party After Brexit, it has “become more systematised and more institutionalised”. In order to get on the candidates’ list, “people are given essentially psychometric tests by the assessment board, and obviously, you can be, to some extent, coached for those”, he said.
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Professor Bale was also quoted in pieces on the Conservative Party in iNews, the Independent, and the Times.