I think you’ve done a good summing up. I find it very lazy to criticise Liz Truss as unintelligent and incompetent. She has probably been one of the better administrators in government. She made a si… (View Post)

Theresa had a Home Counties schoolmistressy dutifulness about her which I think went down well initially. Truss doesn’t even have that. The Tories are doomed. (View Post)

What each candidate needs: 1.Rishi - to get over 120. In the final, inevitability argument, job done. Ideally Kemi to exit, I think. 2. Penny - to come second by a decent margin against Truss in 3rd,… (View Post)

If Liz winds up winning this it will be the most passive, dull and undeserving route to Number 10 I can think of. (View Post)

Respectfully disagree. There’s no reason why Penny couldn’t be a high ranking cabinet minister or even PM. I don’t think it comes down to ability. The thing she needs to work on is her sharpness and … (View Post)