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Tory Leadership contest 2022

It'd be a brave move to stand for election having had to watch everyone resign because they didn't accept your leadership.

Enough, perhaps, to tear apart either the Party or the constitution.
 
Hate to spoil the fun, but it's being reported that vermin party rules say you can't stand for election as leader if you resign

presume that was brought in after john major did that to try and shut the 'bastards' up
Boris didn't use the word "resign". For lying narcissistic idiots like him, an important point.
 
Boris didn't use the word "resign". For lying narcissistic idiots like him, an important point.

but surely they can't have a leadership contest unless the current leader either resigns or gets voted out in a (party) vote of no confidence?
 
but surely they can't have a leadership contest unless the current leader either resigns or gets voted out in a (party) vote of no confidence?
They're having candidates declare their intention to stand. But the contest hasn't been officially called, the 1922 Committee hasn't agreed on the rules let alone announced them.
 
That’s all true from one perspective. Except, he hasn’t yet resigned as party leader: he’s agreed to resign as party leader at some future point, as part of the reselection process. (The process to be announced next week).

“It is clearly now the will of the parliamentary Conservative Party that there should be a new leader of that party” (my emphasis).

“I've agreed with Sir Graham Brady, the chairman of our backbench MPs, that the process of choosing that new leader should begin now and the timetable will be announced next week.”

He mentioned several times his personal mandate. (Something he does not in fact possess but either believes he does possess or wants us to believe he does).

It is not entirely beyond the realms of possibility that he believes he can form a new party, and due to his wonderfulness, somehow regain a majority in Parliament.

Would that work? No way. Might he think it stands a chance? He is certainly deluded and entitled enough that we shouldn’t rule that out.
 
If Sunak gets torpedoed before the final two go to members it’s going to be Truss vs Mordaunt isn’t it, and the biggest difference between them seems to be trans rights.
 
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