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Mordaunt didn’t have the numbers – politicalbetting.com
Mordaunt didn’t have the numbers – politicalbetting.com
Thoughts and prayers for the ghost of Enoch Powell. https://t.co/TwCjZwKdbR
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When Cameron and Corbyn were leaders, the score was 11-11.
(Also, does it include Attlee?)
I know in reality they were not, but...
He also has a mountain to climb in terms of tax and spend, not only as a result of Kwarteng's errors but also his own.
I am happy to wish him well, but as a fiscal conservative (OK by reputation, but not by example) and a Leaver, I won't be voting for him.
Edit - and until 1965 Tory leaders were not, of course.
https://twitter.com/jessicaelgot/status/1584541614118051840
Elected leader in their own right / anointed in a smoke filled room.
Imagine he was an honest PM telling people what no other PM or politician has dared to tell thej. All the never never, life on tick, what goes up must come down.
If he thinks he has nothing (bar the next GE) to lose and he might as well go out on his shield then this might transform British politics.
Big if.
That’s nailed on.
https://twitter.com/thetimes/status/1584522877520400386
https://twitter.com/adambienkov/status/1584540978710745088?s=46&t=bcM6O2lsVIeDod02qK3vqg
https://twitter.com/lukefrancis88/status/1584521990198595584?s=46&t=bcM6O2lsVIeDod02qK3vqg
What I like about Sunak is that he is vegetarian. Let's hope he tries to tighten up laws against cruelty to animals. More power to his elbow if he does.
But it is unlikely Charles will host audiences at Buckingham Palace on Monday to accept the resignation of outgoing PM @trussliz and appoint @RishiSunak
https://twitter.com/PA/status/1584538657725161472
Better had it been Baker but I'll take it.
I presume they won't pay out until after Rishi kisses hands with KCIII
Of course Labour will be arguing that the mess is a Conservative mess, and they'll have a good point, but it's a point which they may overdo, given that everyone knows it's not just a Conservative mess. Labour's most important task is to look and sound credible. It's too easy for them to fall back into their comfort zone of attacking evil Tories, which is a waste of time because it's taken for granted by their own core supporters and not very convincing for floating voters. When it comes to the GE, if Labour disappoint it won't be because of insufficient unpopularity of the Tories, it will be because of insufficient conviction that Labour are a credible alternative.
Do remind us of Ed Davey's school & university
Ah, yes. I recollect. Another privately educated leader who did PPE at Oxford ....
Rishi can easily avoid this rookie error.
Should, just, avoid Welsh and Scots wipeouts and might hold on in a handful of red wallers that swung very hard in '19 is my initial prediction
Now, who knows, perhaps the last few weeks have shocked him as much as the rest of us, and he will be a very different PM than Chancellor, but I have my doubts.
You have my full support.
https://twitter.com/trussliz/status/1584545601177686016
feeling this is the start of the road back. I think we have someone who will take public administration seriously and will start tackling the breadth of challenges facing Britain. That is the lowest of low bars, the faintest of faint praise, but will be more than was managed in any of the last 12 years.
I hope public services get a look in, organising and running them properly is the core of a government in a decent society. Show me how these can be organised, scoped and run in a good value and efficient way in an eventual low tax society rather than just salami sliced and efficiency saved to death whilst barely seeming to comprehend that is even what is happening. Show me how a lightly but well regulated society can effectively champion the average person's rights and protect dignity.
I'm a higher tax Scandi Social Democrat by instinct, I'm sceptical of the claim, I'm sceptical of where the shining beacon example showing that this type of philosophy works actually is. But I will give some respect for a serious coherent government setting on the path to doing so.
I agree that it's really the only strategy that you can see turning things around, in the medium term. Except that he'll have trouble with the honesty when it gets to Brexit.
I reckon he'll get a decent enough bounce in the polls and Labour's lead will be much narrower - at least until the budget.
https://twitter.com/b_judah/status/1584545406540972032
https://twitter.com/guardiannews/status/1584546912476270594
The man who is PM once the effects of the War have gone will be a lucky general.
If the War ends next year, then that could be Sunak. If not, then it is SKS who is lucky.
What's the government's position on fracking I wonder.
Biden is old enough to be Sunak, Macron and Meloni's father.
https://twitter.com/b_judah/status/1584546496128905218
or Macron's wife.
https://twitter.com/leonardocarella/status/1584547324298031104
A look at the chap's party website offers some hints, such as a reference to Our Island Story (capitalised). "Rural Conservatism is about a deep and atavistic connection to the soil beneath our feet and to the ancestors whose footprints we now walk in." I don't think they like [edit] mass immigration, either.
https://www.ruralconservatives.org/beliefs
Scotland: zilch
Wales: zilch
N Ireland: zilch
The party of the Union. Ho ho.
Quite a few hubristic Conservatives are already doing victory laps on here and in media interviews.
Bye bye Douglas Ross.
Will that Welsh Tory twat survive?