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Rishi now odds on for the PM job – politicalbetting.com
Rishi now odds on for the PM job – politicalbetting.com
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.
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ETA: For me not being pipped to first. Could also be for Rishi though, if he loses out this time
And, more obviously, third time lucky for the Tory Party perhaps, if they pick someone sensible this time.
Edit: oops - bad omen for Rishi!
Schedule 2 para 3.
"Upon the initiation of an election for the Leader, it shall be the duty of the 1922 Committee to present to the Party, as soon as reasonably practicable, a choice of candidates for election as Leader. The rules for deciding the procedure by which the 1922 Committee selects candidates for submission for election shall be determined by the Executive Committee of the 1922 Committee after consultation of the Board."
Boris? Leader again? Okay.
Well, if Micky Fab thinks it's a good idea, maybe it is.
Concludes Fri 28 Nov
Noms close 2pm Monday
MPs narrow down to two candidates - all MP stages on the Monday (?)
Then member stages - quick binding online vote if there are two candidates
'Campaign is go!'
One supporter of Boris Johnson says his campaign to return to run the Tory party is now up and running, writes Christopher Hope."
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/10/20/liz-truss-news-resign-pm-conservative-party-general-election/#update-20221020-1732
What could possibly go wrong......?
If you get three candidates, rather than the lowest simply going out, you vote again
Unless the gap is less than 5 MPs, the second candidate is required to drop out.
What? They believe in FPTP, and have used the supplementary vote as well.
- Berry confirms there will be online vote of the Conservative membership that wraps up end of next week https://twitter.com/PickardJE/status/1583134482793893889/photo/1
Fingers crossed this is a lark, and the idea is they are confident it will be a coronation, but can claim that, had MPs not been unified, there would have been a member vote.
Edit: Beaten to it, but screw it, I'm leaving it up.
Once down to Final 2, there won't be time for an opinion poll of members to be done before most members vote.
I think they should wait and see what happens with Boris first.
Rishi 137
Liz 113
Penny 105
Presumably Rishi and Penny get the nomimations, how do Liz's backers split? A lot of them were BoRIsWOzRobbED, but enough?
Five in six say Liz Truss was right to resign today
Right 84%
Wrong 10%
Don't know 6% https://twitter.com/SavantaComRes/status/1583136890404102144/photo/1
Eleni Courea
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Graham Brady + Jake Berry joint statement
— Nominations to be Tory leader close 2pm Monday — need 100 nominations
— Tory members get online vote
— Contest concludes next Friday 28th
— There will be one broadcast event so the public can hear from the final two
With members getting a vote - it's going to be Bozo unless less than 100 MPs nominate him.
“I have breached the ministerial code, and I believe in taking responsibility for my mistakes. Therefore I have no option but to resign.”
Suella Braverman, Thursday:
“You should definitely make me Prime Minister.”
What I meant to post was, first since Churchill to have weekly audiences with 2 different monarchs, then I obviously overruled my subconscious which knew why the shortened version didn't work.
Rob Ford @robfordmancs
So in theory could be three candidates come Monday. Who can get to 100 that quickly?
Rishi (definitely)
Penny (maybe)
Party's right wing will have to decide if they want to Bring Back Boris or back someone else (Badenoch? Braverman?) They can't do both.
That is a good point re Boris. The nutjob vote may be split, and I imagine the sane vote will go overwhelmingly to Rishi this time.
Fingers crossed...
The only safe option is to nuke it from space...
Presumably it's "do you want to live in a quasi-fascist, police state?"
Almost worth it to watch Twitter explode. It would be like 2015 x 100.
That is genuinely the take of by (I swear real) Boris fan relative (whose first vote, ever, at 59, was the Brexit vote). Other highlights that the whole world is in crisis, they cannot stand Starmer (surprisingly strong on that one I felt), and Truss did what people wanted and the MPs stabbed her in the back (I'd say it was the front), and the Tories will be out of power for 20 years.
I should contact my Corbynite relatives, they're probably equally annoyed, for different reasons.
Yes, I can do that.
Because of fraud.
(The rumour not the country - calm down!)