Firstly, the system in the US means you can easily run for the top job from outside Congress. The Conservative candidate for PM is their leader in the House of Commons, so he'd need to cross tha… (View Post)

If Sunak loses, someone else gets control of CCHQ. Why is that person be interested in seeing a key rival back in Parliament? And will the public have it anyway? Not impossible, but a significant hur… (View Post)

Being PM with a large majority, like Johnson was, should be a dream scenario. Back in December 2019, a decade stretched out in front of him as World King. Then he f***ed it up. LOTO is okay if you�… (View Post)

I don't see it as a stages of grief thing, as very few Tory MPs believe the line. But they clearly can't say "we're absolutely f***ed". And it's too late in too tumultuo… (View Post)

He's still run rings around you intellectually, though, hasn't he? Not a tremendously high bar, but still. (View Post)