For Leitch to have any credibility as somebody who is outside the CPC establishment, she will have to answer to her years as a nodding, clapping seal for the party.

At this stage, she may attract support, but when the time comes to put a name, a face, and a personality to her ideas, she will falter.    She has all the warmth of a cold fish, the charisma of a wet noodle, and a speaking style that is between nails on a blackboard, and feral cats for any duration longer than a short soundbite.