Peston: “No longer absurd that Boris could be PM within weeks” The former Mayor and current foreign secretary is now clear favourite to be the next CON leader but his odds are nothing like as strong as they were in the weekend after the general election. One of the drivers of the increased sentiment in Boris has come from a Facebook post by ITV’s Robert Peston. This is what he wrote about the Brexit divisions in the cabinet. “..Her (TMay’s)…
SUNDAY TIMES POLITICAL LEAD May ‘plots to demote Boris’ by @ShippersUnbound #tomorrowspaperstoday pic.twitter.com/G2Sx86cP47 — Neil Henderson (@hendopolis) October 7, 2017 Mrs May attempts undo the strangest political appointment since Caligula wanted to make his horse a Consul When Theresa May’s political obituary is written people might conclude she destroyed her premiership within minutes of becoming Prime Minister when she fired George Osborne as Chancellor and appointed Boris Johnson as Foreign Secretary. At a stroke she made a needless enemy and…
To switch or not to switch In the end BJohnson’s much anticipated conference speech was totally on message and it was hard to find even the most minuscule of difference with the PM. For just about the first time the conference hall was packed and the delegates seemed to be enjoying themselves. But it wasn’t one of the ex-Mayor’s greatest speeches. He had some good jokes and his close was rather subdued and almost took the audience by surprise. Maybe…
Several pollsters are tracking how the public is viewing the Brexit negotiations and the latest, from ORB shows a sharp net decline in approval. Given the importance of this single job to the TMay minority government it is a polling tracker that we need to keep a close eye on. Things are not helped at the moment by the apparent divide caused by the Foreign Secretary appearing to have a different view from the government. One factor is that Labour’s…
Could the end-game for Theresa start next week? Yesterday I heard directly the story the story that has been doing the rounds that the Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson, had already got the backing of 38 fellow CON MPs ready to send letters to the chairman of the 1922 committee calling for confidence vote on TMay’s leadership. If this is correct he needs just a few more if he is to pull the trigger to try to bring GE17 failure down….
EXC: In small hours of election morning Phil Hammond texted Boris to say he would back him for leader — Tim Shipman (@ShippersUnbound) September 23, 2017 Hammond said he would back Boris to run a triumvirate with himself and David Davis to replace Theresa May on election night — Tim Shipman (@ShippersUnbound) September 23, 2017 Hammond leadership plan to replace May: he would run economy, DD would run Brexit, Boris would "run the shop" as front man. See Sunday Times…
TIMES main story #tomorrowspaperstoday pic.twitter.com/X1wnVitWEf — Helen Miller (@MsHelicat) September 19, 2017 On resigning, it’s BoNo, I can’t leave, with or without you Prime Minister. We’ve been here before, an unpopular analogue Prime Minister in a digital world who most of their party would like to ditch, a Foreign Secretary writing a newspaper article setting out their vision which many took as the beginning of a leadership challenge but then chickened out of that challenge. I wonder like David Miliband,…
https://twitter.com/jamesrbuk/status/910065212455309312 Scoop from @gordonrayner: Boris Johnson 'will resign before weekend' if the PM goes against his Brexit demands.https://t.co/7OF2fsCWIS — Jack Maidment (@jrmaidment) September 19, 2017 Boris Johnson is now 3/1 favourite as next out of the cabinet, he was 8/1 last week. TSE