Nobody kicks a dead dog, Dale Carnegie noted. Based on that observation, we can conclude two things from the Conservative party conference. First, the government is very fearful that a fresh referendum is a runner. And secondly, Boris Johnson remains a serious and potent threat. Speaker after speaker at the Conservative party conference lined up to launch an attack on one or other of these. The Prime Minister is at the head of the queue. She has gone out of…
Whatever you think of T May as a politician, she’s a human under a lot of pressure and given the extraordinary circumstances, that was a good speech. — Jennifer Williams (@JenWilliams_FT) October 3, 2018 Plea for party unity – again – with a warning to the Brexiteers. “If we all go off in different directions in pursuit of our own visions of the perfect Brexit – we risk ending up with no Brexit at all.” #CPC18 — Beth Rigby (@BethRigby)…
But is the time now running out? One of my losing bets from last year was placed during the Conservative conference after TMay’s disastrous speech that she wasn’t going to make it as leader till the end of the year. It was a surprise that she’d managed to carry on that long following her decision to call a general election three years early and the manner that she conducted that campaign. Well she did and she’s still there although her…
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A no confidence move is highly risky for any plotters One of the great jobs of returning from a longish holiday is reviewing how things have changed while you’ve been away and the biggest move over the past three weeks is how the Chequers Brexit plan is gathering support. Maybe the Mail was following rather than leading. TMay’s big gamble might just succeed. What is this going to do to her future career prospects? It is being widely said within…
Something feels different about the headlines in today's Daily Mail pic.twitter.com/LCFgwnOrlu — Jack Blanchard (@Jack_Blanchard_) September 12, 2018 At this rate the Daily Mail will soon be backing another referendum. Daily Mail backs May's Brexit plan and brands rebel Tories 'traitors'Editorial laments plotting by Brexiter Conservatives against PM as apparent ‘death wish’. https://t.co/95z3ppHkOZ pic.twitter.com/3RUPaZupRB — TSE (@TSEofPB) September 13, 2018 Welcome to this Bizarro world where in the eyes of the Daily Mail traitors are the hard Brexiteers. The tweets…
TMay indicates she would fight Johnson leadership bid & suggests that she wants to lead the party at the next election https://t.co/Y21ZydMSWG — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) August 29, 2018 The Cape Town message is that she’s not going of her own accord With Mr Corbyn apparently totally secure as Labour leader for as long as he wants the main UK political betting activity, as we get ready for the conference season, is focused on the Tories particularly on Mrs May’s…
Betdata.io Could she go all the way to 2022? This is one of those betting markets that we return to time and time again. Because clearly there cannot be a leadership contest without a vacancy and at the moment Theresa May is sticking in there and looks reasonably certain to remain until Brexit. I find it somewhat amusing when I get correspondence from bookmakers and Boris backer, Arron Banks, alerting me to a leadership fight within the next 3 months….