This could all be over by 2pm on Monday The pressure is on CON MPs not to let the next leader to be decided in a membership ballot which is good for Sunak. They’ll try to soak up enough nominations that prevents others getting to the 100 target. If it goes to a ballot then Johnson will have a better chance of winning. So that means that Tory MPs are going to be overwhelmed this weekend by efforts to get…
Farewell then Liz Truss: 45 days, 1 mini-Budget, 1 resignation, 2 monarchs, 2 Chancellors, 3 sackings and 3 PMQs. Those setting pub quiz questions will forever be in your debt. As for the runners: Sunak: sensibly stayed away from the Cabinet. Campaign slogan: “I bloody told you so!“ Hunt: appears to be calm and a grown up. Probably the only one willing to speak (and implement) some hard truths to both the party and the country. Mordaunt: only if you…
The money’s also going on Mordaunt and Johnson What a day and, as seemed likely overnight, Truss decided to call it a day and now we have another CON leadership contest with it all being sorted this month. My guess is that this will not go to the members but there will be an agreement that whoever is a second after the MP voting rounds will pull out and leave it to the one who’s top choice of the parliamentary…
My 42/1 bet looks value Assuming for a moment that to Liz Truss is ousted then is she really going to stay in post while a leadership election is carried out? That would seem a nonsense and is why there’s a lot of talk about an agreed candidate going forward without a membership ballot. But that might not be as easy as it is hoped and in that situation I just wonder whether Theresa May could be asked to be…
The worst front pages of the Truss premiership? Generally speaking if all the front pages are about one specific political story then it is not good for one side or the other. And so it is this morning. The latest front pages will not only make it harder for Truss to stage a polling recovery but they will add to the pressure on Tory MPs to “do something”. I was hearing last night that the number of letters to 1922…