Tory Leadership contest 2022
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Raheem
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Sources close to Boris Johnson say the evidence about partygate is so damning against Boris Johnson that the Privileges Committee could be 'gone by Christmas' if he returns as Conservative Leader and Prime Minister.
Lord Camomile
Yipchaa!
Current tally:
- Rishi Sunak - 72 MPs
- Boris Johnson - 41 MPs
- Penny Mordaunt - 17 MPs
How many backers do Rishi Sunak and Penny Mordaunt have?
Conservative MPs are declaring who they are backing to become Britain's next prime minister.
www.bbc.co.uk
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
FWIW, the loathsome Staines currently has those numbers respectively as 85, 62 & 23.Current tally:
List of names in the main article:
- Rishi Sunak - 72 MPs
- Boris Johnson - 41 MPs
- Penny Mordaunt - 17 MPs
How many backers do Rishi Sunak and Penny Mordaunt have?
Conservative MPs are declaring who they are backing to become Britain's next prime minister.www.bbc.co.uk
maomao
普費斯
His is 'support' rather than nominations (and says so on it).
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
Yep, should have said; stand (sit) corrected.
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
Was her candidature this time more an attempt at a siphoning away/stop-Johnson deal with Hunt? Her then being on a Sunak/Hunt promise of something big like Shappsy's gig?
pseudonarcissus
fluttering and dancing
BBB...Bring Back Boris! I'd love to see him win...then lose his seat at the election. He has a majority of 7,210.
With current polling, Rishi is the most likely to be in the next parliament
With current polling, Rishi is the most likely to be in the next parliament
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
there were some rumours that he would jump to a safer tory seat (possibly
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
Correct to say "safer"; there are fewer safe seats now.
friedaweed
Me and me girl named Jane
If Cummings was still about I'd actually consider if this has all really been a big fat tory plan.
"Look Bozza it's getting serious now mate. Just resign, go on holiday for a couple of months with that ex PM bonus you can claim and we'll put Liz in until she fucks everything up. Once it's got worse than it was before you left you can creep back in and we'll all get behind the Big Dog again."
"Genius Dom, will I have to take Carrie in that Pink Trouser suit?"
"Look big dog just stay out of trouble, put on the family man facade and I'll do the rest"
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"Look Bozza it's getting serious now mate. Just resign, go on holiday for a couple of months with that ex PM bonus you can claim and we'll put Liz in until she fucks everything up. Once it's got worse than it was before you left you can creep back in and we'll all get behind the Big Dog again."
"Genius Dom, will I have to take Carrie in that Pink Trouser suit?"
"Look big dog just stay out of trouble, put on the family man facade and I'll do the rest"
Boris Johnson is back … from his three post-resignation holidays
Former prime minister said to be flying to UK from Caribbean, after trips to Slovenia and Greece
pseudonarcissus
fluttering and dancing
it's getting a bit late to do that, surely.
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
Fingers crossed
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
Yep, and in an 'ideal' world, Truss then stands again and succeeds him.
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
jump seats, or find a safe tory seat?
if they are still aiming for an election some time in 2024/5 then there's a fair bit of time still. while most parties will have either a sitting MP or a candidate in place in most constituencies, don't think they are formally candidates until after the election has been declared.
while MPs have moved seats at elections before (have a vague recollection that a number of tory MPs did that before 1997) i'm not sure it's been done in a way that would cause two by-elections. not sure you can apply for the chiltern hundreds (or whatever bollocks it is) one day, then a few days later resign that to stand as a candidate somewhere else.
bimble
floofy
and then what? maybe it's fine, politics as an endlessly farcical reality tv show and that's it. Not like they’re hurting anyone apart from themselves is it
Oh well, at least you tried. At some point, you just have to leave people like that happy in their own head, for your own sanity.Ah, the latter
Tanya1982 I had quite the list as a rebuttal. I got "they are all as bad as each other" back
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
I just feel exhausted by that. I know they think it's a game, such a lark, but it's all very tiring to even contemplate.
Seems to be the prevailing view amongst my more elderly neighbours too
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
In practice, no. Whoever is thrust forwards by parliament as able to command a majority in the Commons is the PM.
bimble
floofy
but in law, yes. King could dissolve parliament and force a GE, if he feels like it, which who knows why not he might because he waited 60 years for having any power knows he'll be dead soon and probably thinks Johnson is a heinous bounder.
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