Nah, with all respect to the excellent Cyclefree, that's a cheap shot. There is a huge amount of Government activity that someone needs to do which the junior Ministers keep on the road. It simp… (View Post)

I've taken my profit on the "Johnson not to be leader at Conservative conference" market. I think he'll be OK till the recess now, and then there's two weeks in September and… (View Post)

I'm not sure that matters - the public might welcome a face new to them. The more significant snag is that their own colleagues don't know how they'd perform under pressure. And the To… (View Post)

Betfair offering 3.4 at the time of writing against BJ being leader at the Conference. If they're going to remove him, I'd think they'd want to do it before then so successor X gets a … (View Post)

The default position among my *Conservative* friends in the Blue Wall (and I have quite a few) is that they definitely aren't going to vote Tory at the moment. They are mostly willing to conside… (View Post)