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)

I don't really buy this, having been immersed in it for 13 years. The formalities are just background - you're barely aware they're there, and My Honourable Friend etc. is just like sa… (View Post)

A surprising number do (old article, but probably not very different to today): https://qz.com/207365/more-than-half-of-russians-want-the-soviet-union-back/ The reasoning, I guess, is that they used … (View Post)