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TMay is becoming big problem for the Johnson/Cummings regime

TMay is becoming big problem for the Johnson/Cummings regime

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The former PM – now her successor’s leading Tory critic The latest intervention by TMay in the Commons above isn’t the first and won’t be the last time that the former PM is going to make known her views of the current leadership. She’s particularly furious about the sacking of senior civil servant instigated by the lockdown deviant, Dom Cummings. I thought today’s TMay’s move was smart because she focussed on the issue of national security raising doubts about the…

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Dealing with the Brexit trilemma : How Johnson’s approach differed from TMay’s

Dealing with the Brexit trilemma : How Johnson’s approach differed from TMay’s

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A guest slot from Timothy Hinton I have consistently misunderstood the Brexit options open to the UK as existing on a continuum, from the softest Single Market + Customs Union extreme on one end to the hardest No Deal extreme on the other. The choices made by Boris Johnson, and the relative speed with which the UK and EU were able to reach agreement on a radically different deal, have made it clear that the main options have been much…

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A Very English Vice

A Very English Vice

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Where would we be without hypocrisy? It may have been described (by a Frenchman, unsurprisingly) as “the tribute vice pays to virtue” but a life of complete virtue would be, frankly, intolerable. So let’s enjoy the various hypocrisies our leaders have served up to us in recent weeks:- Mrs May honouring her former press secretary, Robbie Gibb, with a knighthood having, rather nastily, attacked Cameron’s press secretary, Craig Oliver, for his own. However hard poor Sir Robbie worked, a good press…

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Prime Minister May : Her electoral record

Prime Minister May : Her electoral record

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When Theresa May became Prime Minister she spoke about wanting to make the JAM’s (Just About Managing) feel confident about voting Conservative. As she departs as Prime Minister, let’s see if the electorate have taken that message to heart. Local Government By-Elections: July 2016 – July 2019 During the last three years there have been close to four hundred local by-elections up and down the country, each of those by-elections sees thousands of people walk into polling stations and cast…

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Diss-May. The manifest inadequacy of the outgoing Prime Minister

Diss-May. The manifest inadequacy of the outgoing Prime Minister

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I come to bury Theresa May. She leaves the highest political office in the land with no achievements to her name. The country is more divided than when she took office. Its economy is faltering. She has found no resolution to Brexit, the task for which she was appointed Prime Minister. She has completely failed. Mrs May might reasonably argue that the task was immense. So it was. She has made it worse. The tragedy is that she understood part,…

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It is now an 91% chance that TMay will be out this year

It is now an 91% chance that TMay will be out this year

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From Betdata.io chart of Betfair market Aside from the Euro elections next week the other big UK political betting market which has seen a lot of activity is on the date when TMay will finally step aside. After the local elections two weeks ago and the impending disaster for her party a week on Thursday this surely will be the moment when she finally runs out of time. Yet will she? One thing we know is that she isn’t going…

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If Graham Brady had acted differently in July 2016 TMay might never have become PM

If Graham Brady had acted differently in July 2016 TMay might never have become PM

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And the last three years could have been very different With the pressure ratcheting up in the Tory party against TMay it is perhaps worth recalling how she got the job in the first place in July 2016. Boris was the longstanding favourite but pulled out following Michael Gove’s surprise entry into the race. In the MP balloting TMay came top with Andrea Leadsom second. So Leadsom and Theresa May were two names that were to go to the membership. But…

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There’s something rather magnificent about the way TMay just keeps keeps hanging in there

There’s something rather magnificent about the way TMay just keeps keeps hanging in there

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Whenever her detractors think she’s in a corner she always manages to play for time So another day and another key confrontation for TMay over when she is going to finally step down as CON leader and Prime Minister. Like all  others such key moments, it seems, she has found a way to get a key decision deferred till next week or the week after with the result that the pressure for now is offloaded. This is wonderful to watch….

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