Few western governments say it so openly but it remains the technical position of most. Including Taiwan, for that matter, which notionally claims to be the government of all China, in exile from the… (View Post)

Hancock is standing down and in any case is clearly a discredited figure now within politics. Nick Timothy has been chosen to replace him as Tory candidate in West Suffolk (23k / 45% majority; should… (View Post)

Hunt is basically the same - and as a long-serving Health Sec would be blamed personally for many of the current NHS problems (not without some justification). I don't see much more of a spark of the… (View Post)

No, because it wasn't Sunak who brought Johnson down; it was Johnson who brought Johnson down. His behaviour, his cowardliness, his covering from friends and allies, his lying, his petty and grumpy r… (View Post)

Sunak himself is tolerably adequate, if a bit naff. Certainly better than either Johnson or Truss. If not him, Hunt or Gove could do the job. Both would be better PMs than party leaders though, parti… (View Post)