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Is Parris right about her shortcomings? There’s a very powerful piece by the former Tory MP Matthew Parris in the Times this morning raising doubts about Liz Truss – the woman who looks set to be the next CON leader and PM. He writes: In Times columns I’ve offered my first impressions of this candidate. They were that she was intellectually shallow, her convictions wafer-thin; that she was driven by ambition pure and simple; that her manner was wooden and…

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The big question that really has not been looked at much during the Conservative leadership campaign is how much the winner will actually help the party at the next general election. Currently on the betting markets it is less than a 25% chance that the Tories will get another majority with similar odds on Labour. The overwhelming betting at the moment is that we’re going to have a hung Parliament. In that context the most likely post election Prime Minister…

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If the Republicans fail to win back control of the Senate in the elections on November 8th it could be that the above ad is partly responsible. The commercial for their candidate for the Senate seat in Pennsylvania has been getting widespread coverage because of the apparent tone deafness of the approach. The rising cost of food is clearly something that that they can exploit but it’s the use of the term crudité by their multi millionaire candidate that is…

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After the raid on his Florida home and all the other developments relating to ‘Trump he is now back as favourite to win the Presidency back at WH2014. We saw the power of the Trump machine in this week’s Wyoming primary to select a House nominee when the Trump-favoured contender beat the incumbent, Liz Cheney, by a huge margin for the state’s nomination for the House of Representatives. This came only a few days after the FBI raid and emphasised…

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However you look at this Liz Truss is now a near certainty to become the next Conservative leader and Prime Minister. Yet we will still have to wait for 3 weeks before we get the official declaration and then, no doubt, the trip to the Palace. Yet she was only the third choice of MPs on the first ballot and even on the final count amongst the parliamentary party she trailed Rishi Sunak by some distance. There is nothing she…

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Up to last month’s historic decision by the US Supreme Court to overturn the 1973 Roe v Wade precedent on abortion it did appear that the Republican party was going to take the House and the Senate in the November 8th mid-term elections. The balance on the Supreme Court had been changed during the Trump presidency but no one really thought that Roe v Wade would be overturned in the way that it was. Now it is looking less certain…

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Not good for the Red wall? I have no doubt that Keir Starmer and his team are already preparing for the first prime Minister’s Questions with Liz Truss and I wonder whether the contents of the above tweet from Lisa Nandy might figure in the very first one. Whenever the party opposite gets a new leader then the other side starts working at ways of undermining him or her and seeking to brand them in a manner that could impact…

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