If the S Times reports are correct it doesn’t bode well for TMay’s survival chances
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Tomorrow night’s C4 Boris documentary looks set to add to Tory tensions over Theresa
Tomorrow night at 10 PM a documentary on Boris Johnson by Gary Gibbon is due to be screened on Channel 4 and judging by some of the extracts so far released it looks set to unsettle CON delegates in Manchester. This is the start of an article on the programme by Gibbon in The I. “Several months before the general election, Boris Johnson returned to the Foreign Office after a meeting with Theresa May, flanked by her powerful joint Chiefs…
With the CON conference starting David Herdson says what’s wanted is vision
‘Getting on with the job’ simply isn’t good enough “I have a dream”, said Martin Luther King, in one of the greatest speeches of the twentieth century. It was a dream he wanted to share and did share, and it was – and is – remembered not just for the eloquence of that initial delivery but for the righteousness and simplicity of the vision. In doing so, he did what every great political leader does: inspires and reinforces confidence among…
Tory membership reported to have dropped by 40k since GE17 and might now be below the LDs
A report tonight by the former political journalist of the year, David Henke, says there’s been a huge reduction in Tory members since GE2017 and that the total is down to 100k. In an interview John Strafford, chairman of the Campaign for Conservative Democracy is quoted as saying “the real membership of the party has plummeted to around 100,000” a figure that is well below the 149,500 used by the party in 2013. “The party is facing oblivion. If you…
Tories who want TMay out well before the general election are going to have to forcibly remove her
First Secretary of State, Damian Green, makes clear she’ll go on I’ve been of the view since June that TMay’s objective was to try to remain in office to fight the next election which, if she succeeded, would make amends for GE17. The “she’ll step down quietly after Brexit theory” has never convinced me. This view is supported today by the minister who is closest to TMay than anyone – her old Oxford friend from decades ago, my old BBC…
LAB takes 4% lead in new YouGov Times poll
LAB takes 4% lead in new YouGov/Times pollCON 39 -2LAB 43 +1LD 7= — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) September 26, 2017 This could put even more pressure on TMay’s Manchester conference The polling that’s taken place since TMay’s much vaunted Florence speech on Brexit has not been good to the Tories although the numbers are all within the margin or error. Yesterday the Guardian ICM poll had LAB moving to a 2% lead after being level pegging. Tonight YuGov has LAB…
ICM finds Corbyn making ground against TMay across a range of key policy areas
Guardian Team CON should be most worried about the economy numbers and pensioners During the election campaign in May ICM asked voters to rate May and Corbyn on a range of nine key policy areas as shown in the table above. At the time, of course, all appeared to be going well for the incumbent PM who looked set for a huge victory. In its latest Guardian poll ICM has revisited the questioning and finds that the position is nothing…
I now have huge doubts about the political judgment of Philip Hammond
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…