Who is "they" though? The Parliamentary Conservative Party is no longer a single coherent entity. We have had frogmarching of reluctant members through the lobbies and senior MPs, variously… (View Post)

In order to drag this ludicrous pantomime out until January 2025, your MPs have first to pass a budget, and then either to rally behind Truss or manage to pick a viable successor without the entire P… (View Post)

It's immaterial. Quite how waiting for the Conservative Party to fuck about for the rest of the year whilst it whittles down a list of candidates to two and then sends them off to the members for a l… (View Post)

This is now a government in a rolling state of chaos. A senior cabinet minister going on television and not knowing if the Chief Whip Wendy Morton is still in post. They're the words just now of the … (View Post)

Johnson was, by the end, a ruinously unpopular liability - not to mention a complete moral and ethical vacuum - and it was right that he went. The fact that a collaboration between thick as mince and… (View Post)