Rejoice!* The Trusster will become Prime Minister. And thus ends both the Union and the Conservative Party.
*don't rejoice
Biggest end of the union since the last Indy ref and Brexit I suspect.
As Liz Truss held the position of President of Oxford University Liberal Democrats (a position Icarus also held - though without the Democrats bit) I hope that she is a sleeper who will destroy the Tories from the inside!
She was in my year at Oxford. I never met her though. Not sure I missed much.
A chap called Bill Clinton was in my year - he never met me either!
I don’t want to worry you, but it is theoretically possible for tomorrow’s supposedly final heat of the Tory leadership contest to be a dead heat. Since with Ellwood expelled, there are 357 voters and Sunak, Mordaunt and Truss could each get 119. Goodness knows what happens then https://twitter.com/Peston/status/1549399308688048130
Tories don’t be disheartened. Truss could surprise. One of her strengths is that she appears to have a genuine sense of what she stands for and might offer a coherent programme, which will help ride the economic storm.
No, she'll be an absolutely disaster... Con will be agitating to get rid of her almost immediately.
George Canning might just be about the get a reprieve from his place in Prime Ministerial infamy lol!
Lol when 61% of voters say Truss would be a bad PM
Labour supporters can be happy today.
If there was an election within the next few months I would take Truss in a shot but we are only half way through this Parliament. Two and a half years of her?
Utterly delighted, either get £5k or the best person becomes PM.
Win/win. Very happy. 😁
Liz Truss? The best person? FFS. She will ensure a Labour victory at the next GE. She is Boris Johnson in a skirt: she will say anything to anyone to advance her career. It will unravel in weeks.
Liz Truss the best person for PM is the biggest load of shite posted on PB since people were saying that Boris Johnson was pure muscle.
Nobody ever said that though. Other than @kinabalu kept saying it sarcastically.
Liz Truss is the best person for PM though. 👍 But I'd rather get my £5000, so Rishi v Truss is a win/win.
You must have bet big.
I'm only in the £400-600 space. A tenth of yours!
I think BR bet when Rishi was 250/1
I'm all green, with ≈£100 win for Truss or Rishi and ≈ £300 for Mordaunt.
Not so sure that the bet @TSE was touting a couple of threads ago about a Tory polling lead in September is looking so good now.
And Rishi will presumably be the next to follow the Osborne walk of shame out of the Commons after his "what do you regret most: voting to remain or being a Liberal Democrat" dig. There was real contempt in that and it is going to be mutual.
Thoughts and prayers for HYUFD when the party is led by a (former) Lib Dem and republican.
I disagree with your post. Winston Churchill was in the liberals as an adult, not as a young immature person - you questioning his Conservative Icon status?
As Truss should have replied to Sunak’s silly jibe, it’s not how long the long and winding road, it’s where it ends up - and liz journey took her to sitting opposite Sunak in cabinet opposing Rishis tax hikes! the highest tax take since early fifties from Rishi sunak.
The fact she was Lib Dem in political youth actually means zilch. The fact she is a hopeless politician in her prime is the honest and fair attack line.
James Heale @JAHeale · 17m It’s ridiculous to compare this hot summer to 1976. Back then MPs had to choose between Crosland, Jenkins, Healey, Benn, Callaghan and Foot for PM.
I don’t want to worry you, but it is theoretically possible for tomorrow’s supposedly final heat of the Tory leadership contest to be a dead heat. Since with Ellwood expelled, there are 357 voters and Sunak, Mordaunt and Truss could each get 119. Goodness knows what happens then https://twitter.com/Peston/status/1549399308688048130
Just expel another one of Sunak's MPs and then do the vote again, I guess would be Johnson's solution.
Not so sure that the bet @TSE was touting a couple of threads ago about a Tory polling lead in September is looking so good now.
And Rishi will presumably be the next to follow the Osborne walk of shame out of the Commons after his "what do you regret most: voting to remain or being a Liberal Democrat" dig. There was real contempt in that and it is going to be mutual.
I don’t want to worry you, but it is theoretically possible for tomorrow’s supposedly final heat of the Tory leadership contest to be a dead heat. Since with Ellwood expelled, there are 357 voters and Sunak, Mordaunt and Truss could each get 119. Goodness knows what happens then https://twitter.com/Peston/status/1549399308688048130
Utterly delighted, either get £5k or the best person becomes PM.
Win/win. Very happy. 😁
Liz Truss? The best person? FFS. She will ensure a Labour victory at the next GE. She is Boris Johnson in a skirt: she will say anything to anyone to advance her career. It will unravel in weeks.
Liz Truss the best person for PM is the biggest load of shite posted on PB since people were saying that Boris Johnson was pure muscle.
Is that where his "guaranteed to give you bigger boobs" meme came from ?
If this was an interview for a middle management post, rather than leader of a major country, they would definitely be on the "previous candidates need not apply" readvertisement stage,
These guys just need an answer if some kind to rwo questions: "what are you going to do about people fuel bills?" and "how will you fix the NHS?". Even just showing some interest in the problems would help.
Problem is - there isn't much you can do about fuel bills
And the fix for the NHS is a 10 year project - firstly because anything to do with training will take 7 years to expand universities (2 years) and then 5 years before the first arrivals get their first degree and start working.
Disagree. The correct answer for Fuel Bills is that you protect the vulnerable, try to mitigate some of the effects for everyone else, while acknowledging it will be a difficult time for most. For hospitals, yes, the main problem is a long term one of training, recruitment and retention of staff. So you focus on that, now. There are probably some things you can do in the short term, like fund a pay rise.
So this means spending a chunk more money following on from the Covid splurge. If this is a priority you will find that money. Thing is, none of the PM candidates is interested in problems of real people. They don't want to talk about them, so they don't have to deal with them,
I don’t want to worry you, but it is theoretically possible for tomorrow’s supposedly final heat of the Tory leadership contest to be a dead heat. Since with Ellwood expelled, there are 357 voters and Sunak, Mordaunt and Truss could each get 119. Goodness knows what happens then https://twitter.com/Peston/status/1549399308688048130
Just expel another one of Sunak's MPs and then do the vote again, I guess would be Johnson's solution.
One ballot was spoiled according to Graham Brady. Boris?
Not so sure that the bet @TSE was touting a couple of threads ago about a Tory polling lead in September is looking so good now.
And Rishi will presumably be the next to follow the Osborne walk of shame out of the Commons after his "what do you regret most: voting to remain or being a Liberal Democrat" dig. There was real contempt in that and it is going to be mutual.
Rishi isn’t the Chancellor any more!
I know. But if this goes the way you would predict at the moment he won't be in the next cabinet either.
Not so sure that the bet @TSE was touting a couple of threads ago about a Tory polling lead in September is looking so good now.
And Rishi will presumably be the next to follow the Osborne walk of shame out of the Commons after his "what do you regret most: voting to remain or being a Liberal Democrat" dig. There was real contempt in that and it is going to be mutual.
I think Rishi is very much - become PM or retire at the next election...
Deary me the Tories aren't going to be stupid enough to vote in the B&M Thatcher surely....
Are you kidding? They voted in Iain Duncan Smith.
As LOTO.
For a bit.
I have a sinking feeling that the worst of all the last five candidates could prevail - and that is Truss. She doesn't have a single positive attribute. Dull, tongue-tied, humourless, and representing continuity rather than change. I remember how it was when IDS beat Portillo and Clarke. This is feeling ominously similar.
I don’t want to worry you, but it is theoretically possible for tomorrow’s supposedly final heat of the Tory leadership contest to be a dead heat. Since with Ellwood expelled, there are 357 voters and Sunak, Mordaunt and Truss could each get 119. Goodness knows what happens then https://twitter.com/Peston/status/1549399308688048130
Unfortunate for Kemi, but a great campaign, one hell of a marker for the next contest, and a very good shout for a Great Office in the new administration.
In Truss we trust.
Gove will now be negotiating and playing Sunak and Truss off against each other.
Boy, he must be having the time of his life.
Are you suggesting he is Kemi's.....er.......client acquirer?
Not so sure that the bet @TSE was touting a couple of threads ago about a Tory polling lead in September is looking so good now.
And Rishi will presumably be the next to follow the Osborne walk of shame out of the Commons after his "what do you regret most: voting to remain or being a Liberal Democrat" dig. There was real contempt in that and it is going to be mutual.
I think Rishi is very much - become PM or retire at the next election...
Still time for twists and turns, but I think Liz has Rishi's number
His best attempt in the debates was a lame 'hur, you used to be a LD'. If that's the best he can do she will wipe the floor with him and make her own ineptitude a sign of being 'real'.
I don't think that's the best he can do. That was meant as a light question; he didn't want lots of blue-on-blue fighting.
The question is what does Sunak or the stop-Truss contingent have still to use? And when do they use it?
I think Sunak's lead is bigger than it looks. I think he has lent votes to Truss to ensure the elimination of wild card Badenoch and a run-off against one of the 2 candidates he's most comfortable opposing in the Final. So, next vote, he'll pull away and Truss will not gain as many net votes as people are assuming. She - Truss - is a standout lay IMO if she's gone odds on.
Deary me the Tories aren't going to be stupid enough to vote in the B&M Thatcher surely....
Are you kidding? They voted in Iain Duncan Smith.
As LOTO.
For a bit.
I have a sinking feeling that the worst of all the last five candidates could prevail - and that is Truss. She doesn't have a single positive attribute. Dull, tongue-tied, humourless, and representing continuity rather than change. I remember how it was when IDS beat Portillo and Clarke. This is feeling ominously similar.
I'm on Truss as next PM at 66/1 with William Hill. I hope she gets it. £660 and a Labour government.
People were saying earlier that a tie for last place means a re-run ballot, and if there's still a tie for last both are excluded... is that how they skip the members' phase?
Thoughts and prayers for Dom who may have brought the wonky shopping trolley down only to have it replaced by the MP he thinks is most bonkers of all them.
Relax you drama queens. The members won’t elect Truss over Rishi.
Can’t you see the members polling stinks, it flips about more dramatically in space of a week than yougov polling.
Zero chance of Truss becoming leader. The Badenoch vote can’t stand Truss which is why they aren’t voting for the embaressing Thatcher tribute act already.
Yes, I suspect Team Sunak will think they can overhaul a 19-point deficit over the summer. The one strategic problem is that it coincides exactly with the school holidays, so minimal attention paid to politics by the public or indeed the Tory membership.
I think Sunak's lead is bigger than it looks. I think he has lent votes to Truss to ensure the elimination of wild card Badenoch and a run-off against one of the 2 candidates he's most comfortable opposing in the Final. So, next vote, he'll pull away and Truss will not gain as many net votes as people are assuming. She - Truss - is a standout lay IMO if she's gone odds on.
Will he lend votes to Mordaunt in the next round, or is it too risky.
I'm on Truss as next PM at 66/1 with William Hill. I hope she gets it. £660 and a Labour government.
People were saying earlier that a tie for last place means a re-run ballot, and if there's still a tie for last both are excluded... is that how they skip the members' phase?
looking at that, Penny might be the value now....?
Truss is Labour's dream, of course, but Sunak would lead a hopelessly divided party, which will work in Labour's favour too. However, bearing in mind the next election is probably two years away, Sunak will do much less damage in the meantime than Truss would, so the only patriotic vote from here is one for Sunak. I actually hope he does win. If it's Truss we're in worst PM in history territory again.
Thoughts and prayers for Dom who may have brought the wonky shopping trolley down only to have it replaced by the MP he thinks is most bonkers of all them.
The adage be careful what you wish for (Removing Bozo) it may come true has never been so apt.
Especially as Labour will be very much thinking of a new voting system when they win the next election.
** EXCLUSIVE in today's Chopper's Politics Newsletter ** More than 1,800 Conservative party members have written to the Tory party chairman in less than 12 hours to demand that a vote on whether Boris Johnson should carry on as leader.
The members - all of whom have to give their membership numbers when they sign up - are backing a petition organised by Tory donor Lord Cruddas and former Conservative MEP David Campbell-Bannerman @DCBMEP
The signatories are invited to support the following statement: "I demand Boris Johnson is added to the ballot as an option for the members to vote upon in the forthcoming election."
Lord Cruddas says under the party's constitution it can add Mr Johnson's name to the ballot.
Lord Cruddas tells me: "The membership wants the option of voting for Boris on the final ballot.
"We think it is only fair because Boris was the members choice back in 2019 and he has been constructively removed by the Parliamentary Party without referral to the membership.
"By adding Boris to the final ballot to make it a three horse race means that the winner will have the backing of the membership.
"There will be no ambiguity around the result and the final choice of leader will have integrity."
James Heale @JAHeale · 17m It’s ridiculous to compare this hot summer to 1976. Back then MPs had to choose between Crosland, Jenkins, Healey, Benn, Callaghan and Foot for PM.
All men.
The tail end of the wartime generation, though it continued for a bit in Thatcher's cabinet. Roy Jenkins was at Bletchley Park; Healey in the army; Benn was a bomber pilot; Callaghan a matelot; not sure about the other two. I suppose Major Heath would have been LotO still.
If PM Truss does go through with her desire to establish a republic, she might try to install President Bozo.
Quick - Vote Rishi!
Truss has at least abandoned her support for a republic, telling the Express she now understands why our constitutional monarchy is so important to our democracy
Much like Truss has abandoned her support for nuclear disarmament, abandoned her support for Remain for the hardest of Brexits, abandoned her support for the LDs to become an economic Thatcherite and indeed abandoned her old school to make a political point
I’m actually a little scared of a Truss premiership.
She won't be able to get the right wing fantasy stuff done because of the state of the parliamentary conservative party. There will be lots of rebellions when anything controversial comes up.
... the last rift was on Brexit, the new rift will be on cultural issues. Not so easy to fix.
** EXCLUSIVE in today's Chopper's Politics Newsletter ** More than 1,800 Conservative party members have written to the Tory party chairman in less than 12 hours to demand that a vote on whether Boris Johnson should carry on as leader.
The members - all of whom have to give their membership numbers when they sign up - are backing a petition organised by Tory donor Lord Cruddas and former Conservative MEP David Campbell-Bannerman @DCBMEP
The signatories are invited to support the following statement: "I demand Boris Johnson is added to the ballot as an option for the members to vote upon in the forthcoming election."
Lord Cruddas says under the party's constitution it can add Mr Johnson's name to the ballot.
Lord Cruddas tells me: "The membership wants the option of voting for Boris on the final ballot.
"We think it is only fair because Boris was the members choice back in 2019 and he has been constructively removed by the Parliamentary Party without referral to the membership.
"By adding Boris to the final ballot to make it a three horse race means that the winner will have the backing of the membership.
"There will be no ambiguity around the result and the final choice of leader will have integrity."
Still time for twists and turns, but I think Liz has Rishi's number
His best attempt in the debates was a lame 'hur, you used to be a LD'. If that's the best he can do she will wipe the floor with him and make her own ineptitude a sign of being 'real'.
I don't think that's the best he can do. That was meant as a light question; he didn't want lots of blue-on-blue fighting.
The question is what does Sunak or the stop-Truss contingent have still to use? And when do they use it?
Agreed; said at the time Rishi soft-balled Truss at the end.
Chris Skidmore of Team Rishi accuses the Liz and Penny camps of possibly trading votes. Don't understand how that works.
It's not completely impossible that some of the TT votes were tactically lent to Truss in order to guarantee Badenoch's removal - and will be removed from her in the next round. No collusion with Truss needed, but it would work.
** EXCLUSIVE in today's Chopper's Politics Newsletter ** More than 1,800 Conservative party members have written to the Tory party chairman in less than 12 hours to demand that a vote on whether Boris Johnson should carry on as leader.
The members - all of whom have to give their membership numbers when they sign up - are backing a petition organised by Tory donor Lord Cruddas and former Conservative MEP David Campbell-Bannerman @DCBMEP
The signatories are invited to support the following statement: "I demand Boris Johnson is added to the ballot as an option for the members to vote upon in the forthcoming election."
Lord Cruddas says under the party's constitution it can add Mr Johnson's name to the ballot.
Lord Cruddas tells me: "The membership wants the option of voting for Boris on the final ballot.
"We think it is only fair because Boris was the members choice back in 2019 and he has been constructively removed by the Parliamentary Party without referral to the membership.
"By adding Boris to the final ballot to make it a three horse race means that the winner will have the backing of the membership.
"There will be no ambiguity around the result and the final choice of leader will have integrity."
I don’t want to worry you, but it is theoretically possible for tomorrow’s supposedly final heat of the Tory leadership contest to be a dead heat. Since with Ellwood expelled, there are 357 voters and Sunak, Mordaunt and Truss could each get 119. Goodness knows what happens then https://twitter.com/Peston/status/1549399308688048130
Just expel another one of Sunak's MPs and then do the vote again, I guess would be Johnson's solution.
One ballot was spoiled according to Graham Brady. Boris?
He drew a cock and balls in an attempt to vote for himself?
Sunak more or less stood still and so did Kemi. Mordaunt gained a few not many. So where did TR’s vote go?
Not Truss obvs. One assumes his vote largely went to Kemi, Kemi’s went to Truss in equal measure, the uniting of the ERG.
Which means Kemi’s vote would not be as rich a hunting ground for Truss as one might assume.
The same scenario could be true but with TT’s vote to Sunak and a chunk of Sunak’s to Kemi. Less likely but similar outcome.
I can see there being one vote in this at the end 😐
Or it mainly went to Sunak, who also lent out a chunk of his vote to Truss to guarantee Badenoch was eliminated (the candidate he was weakest against) now in the final round he can choose his opponent (so don't rule out a massive swing back toward Mordaunt).
James Heale @JAHeale · 17m It’s ridiculous to compare this hot summer to 1976. Back then MPs had to choose between Crosland, Jenkins, Healey, Benn, Callaghan and Foot for PM.
All men.
The tail end of the wartime generation, though it continued for a bit in Thatcher's cabinet. Roy Jenkins was at Bletchley Park; Healey in the army; Benn was a bomber pilot; Callaghan a matelot; not sure about the other two. I suppose Major Heath would have been LotO still.
A very steely looking Liz in her banner photo shows how her prime ministerial image will evolve. I think people are writing off her chances against Starmer too soon.
Away from the leadership. A 1.9% increase in per pupil funding. No wonder @ydoethur is getting out. He won't be alone.
And a 5% pay rise for the NHS but making the NHS pay for it. The government is using inflation to put a massive squeeze on public services, which won't end well.
Major incident in London declared by Mayor Khan in response to a number of fires. Wants to ban disposable barbecues.
The number of idiots who put them in insane places. That, combined with the fashion for decking in small gardens - popular for rental properties.....
Out here they’ve started locking up people for cooking with barbecues on balconies of cladded apartment blocks - after half a dozen buildings went properly on fire!
Never underestimate just how moronic the morons can be.
A very steely looking Liz in her banner photo shows how her prime ministerial image will evolve. I think people are writing off her chances against Starmer too soon.
Rejoice!* The Trusster will become Prime Minister. And thus ends both the Union and the Conservative Party.
*don't rejoice
Biggest end of the union since the last Indy ref and Brexit I suspect.
Sure! And I'm not seeking independence. But the government of the UK is a corrupt disfunctional shit show. And if the Tories elect an incompetent sneering harridan who continues to disregard Scottish democracy, it only increases the likelihood of a yes vote when it eventually gets put to us again.
Provided the SC rules the UK government can refuse an indyref2 it ain't happening again anyway anytime soon
James Heale @JAHeale · 17m It’s ridiculous to compare this hot summer to 1976. Back then MPs had to choose between Crosland, Jenkins, Healey, Benn, Callaghan and Foot for PM.
All men.
The tail end of the wartime generation, though it continued for a bit in Thatcher's cabinet. Roy Jenkins was at Bletchley Park; Healey in the army; Benn was a bomber pilot; Callaghan a matelot; not sure about the other two. I suppose Major Heath would have been LotO still.
Healey was a little more than in the army. He was beachmaster at Anzio.
I’m actually a little scared of a Truss premiership.
She won't be able to get the right wing fantasy stuff done because of the state of the parliamentary conservative party. There will be lots of rebellions when anything controversial comes up.
... the last rift was on Brexit, the new rift will be on cultural issues. Not so easy to fix.
Truth is as far as what a PM can do to a country policy wise a lot of Johnson's time wasn't horrendous because it was basically all covid after the Brexit oven deal. Plus Johnson is so crap at actually governing that little seems to have been achieved.
He has massively damaged that actual office of PM and public life in general but I think actual policy stuff here.
A very steely looking Liz in her banner photo shows how her prime ministerial image will evolve. I think people are writing off her chances against Starmer too soon.
Deliver, deliver, deliver.
Special delivery. Guaranteed to deliver. Guaranteed Next Day Delivery.
Comments
Why is she smiling like that?
George Canning might just be about the get a reprieve from his place in Prime Ministerial infamy lol!
Quite pleased how this has panned out.
And Rishi will presumably be the next to follow the Osborne walk of shame out of the Commons after his "what do you regret most: voting to remain or being a Liberal Democrat" dig. There was real contempt in that and it is going to be mutual.
As Truss should have replied to Sunak’s silly jibe, it’s not how long the long and winding road, it’s where it ends up - and liz journey took her to sitting opposite Sunak in cabinet opposing Rishis tax hikes! the highest tax take since early fifties from Rishi sunak.
The fact she was Lib Dem in political youth actually means zilch. The fact she is a hopeless politician in her prime is the honest and fair attack line.
I'm on Truss as next PM at 66/1 with William Hill.
I hope she gets it. £660 and a Labour government.
So this means spending a chunk more money following on from the Covid splurge. If this is a priority you will find that money. Thing is, none of the PM candidates is interested in problems of real people. They don't want to talk about them, so they don't have to deal with them,
IMHO, Sunak gets a few more, and Mourdaunt a few less, of the Badenoch votes.
If I can't be PM I'm not playing this game...?
FFS
Quick - Vote Rishi!
Sunak 2.36
Mordaunt 7.8
https://www.betfair.com/exchange/plus/politics/market/1.160663234
The question is what does Sunak or the stop-Truss contingent have still to use? And when do they use it?
Jeffrey Archer.
So to quote Dad´s Army: "We´re all doooomed".
For a brief period.... and then the Conservative Party should be put out of our misery forever.
Eeee.
I’m actually a little scared of a Truss premiership.
Not Truss obvs. One assumes his vote largely went to Kemi, Kemi’s went to Truss in equal measure, the uniting of the ERG.
Which means Kemi’s vote would not be as rich a hunting ground for Truss as one might assume.
The same scenario could be true but with TT’s vote to Sunak and a chunk of Sunak’s to Kemi. Less likely but similar outcome.
I can see there being one vote in this at the end 😐
Kemi’s ending tally is likely more “left” than “right” at this stage, and I don’t think Liz gets even half of it.
Especially as Labour will be very much thinking of a new voting system when they win the next election.
But this result has surprised and shaken me.
More than 1,800 Conservative party members have written to the Tory party chairman in less than 12 hours to demand that a vote on whether Boris Johnson should carry on as leader.
The members - all of whom have to give their membership numbers when they sign up - are backing a petition organised by Tory donor Lord Cruddas and former Conservative MEP David Campbell-Bannerman @DCBMEP
The signatories are invited to support the following statement: "I demand Boris Johnson is added to the ballot as an option for the members to vote upon in the forthcoming election."
Lord Cruddas says under the party's constitution it can add Mr Johnson's name to the ballot.
Lord Cruddas tells me: "The membership wants the option of voting for Boris on the final ballot.
"We think it is only fair because Boris was the members choice back in 2019 and he has been constructively removed by the Parliamentary Party without referral to the membership.
"By adding Boris to the final ballot to make it a three horse race means that the winner will have the backing of the membership.
"There will be no ambiguity around the result and the final choice of leader will have integrity."
https://twitter.com/christopherhope/status/1549372957805481984
Roy Jenkins was at Bletchley Park; Healey in the army; Benn was a bomber pilot; Callaghan a matelot; not sure about the other two. I suppose Major Heath would have been LotO still.
A 1.9% increase in per pupil funding.
No wonder @ydoethur is getting out. He won't be alone.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1534760/Liz-Truss-BBC-Republican-Monarchy-Queen-Nick-Robinson-VN
Much like Truss has abandoned her support for nuclear disarmament, abandoned her support for Remain for the hardest of Brexits, abandoned her support for the LDs to become an economic Thatcherite and indeed abandoned her old school to make a political point
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/18/liz-truss-roundhay-school-foreign-secretary-education
... the last rift was on Brexit, the new rift will be on cultural issues. Not so easy to fix.
No collusion with Truss needed, but it would work.
Seems a bit unlikely to me, but not impossible.
Never underestimate just how moronic the morons can be.
Which means that we can add to this graphic that circulated recently:
With this:
(I did have to extend the top of the graphic a little, I'm afraid. Good job we didn't hit 42 degrees, it would have looked ridiculous.
He was beachmaster at Anzio.
He has massively damaged that actual office of PM and public life in general but I think actual policy stuff here.
Truss could do far more damage in two years.
Have we got the IMF on speed dial for example?
Special delivery. Guaranteed to deliver. Guaranteed Next Day Delivery.