whoever is leader now, will likely not be the leader at the next election. Look how many leaders they got through while they were in government and winning :laugh:

2:30PM Monday 29th

Is the last time for the 5 or 6

Suella has withdrawn

BREAKING: Kemi Badenoch has entered the Conservative leadership race to replace Rishi
Sunak with a pledge to tell voters the truth

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/...eg?imwidth=680

Kemi Badenoch MP
Tom Tugendhat MP
Robert Jenrick MP
James Cleverly MP
Mel Stride MP
Priti Patel MP


Are now the Official 6 running to be leader
Suella only got 10 MP's backing her.

This goes onto November.

Ref: Politics Live BBC2HD

Mmmm

Half Baden Powell half Enoch Powell .


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Kemi Badenoch v the Post Office is a great political soap opera. Like much good TV, however, it distracts us from reality. The business secretary fired Henry Staunton, the former chair of the Post Office, in January. A month later, Staunton told the Sunday Times that Sarah Munby, a senior civil servant, instructed him to slow compensation payments to victims of the Horizon scandal. Badenoch then launched an extraordinary character assassination from the dispatch box in the House of Commons, claiming Staunton had been fired after accusations of bullying (she originally told the public he had left by “mutual consent”). It’s not clear which story is true, but the prime minister notably refused to repeat Badenoch’s claims.


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Esther McVey
helping Jenrick.

The problem with all of these.
Is they've all been part of the problems and scandals of the Cons in government.

How many PMs have they switched from and supported different policies totally of.
Coming out to defend PMs on policy and even wrongdoings.

The Cons need to look further afield.
I used to like Tom Tugendhat, I kind of still do but he's going down the ugly rhetoric of leaving the ECHR.
Which is just sounding like Sunak and others again.

Reform must be celebrating at the prospect of one of these taking over.
I am no lover of the Reform Party or Nigel Farage.
In fact I disagree with all they are.

However you know where you REALLY are with those in Reform because they stick to their principles.
Whichever one of these lot are elected as leader of the Cons, Farage and his party can discredit said leader at every turn.

All of them represent the errors of the past and nothing at all as to real change for the future.

Only Boris can save the Tories


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:joker::joker: I half thought you may come in and say something like that.

I guess instead of electing one of these useless candidates who supported the rot once it set in.
Then they may as well choose the guy Johnson who started the rot in the first place.

Reform may have had problems more re Johnson but I think his time has well and truly passed now, even moreso with only 121 MPs.
The Con membership still have some affection for Johnson though.

Boris is the ONLY current politician who even now has millions of admirers


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As an orator and campaigner.yes.

As a leader in politics now, I'd question that really.
The time has ticked by.

Maybe had he stood against Rishi Sunak in the second election of 2022.
However really he didn't actually have enough Con MPs votes then even to go through and he realised that

People have short, selective memories

12 months of Starmer and Rayner and rioting.. then the sandwich Boris had in his back garden will all be forgotten.

Its pure folly to deny Boris’s popularity


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I know you like him Zizu.

However in the election just passed in our canvassing, the number of Con former voters leaving the party and most going to Reform.
The vast majority of them never want to see Johnson again.

I think he knows that too which is another reason why he maybe chose to not in any meaningful way engage in the election.

We shall see ..
Millions left the Tories because they got rid of Boris ( and the way it was done ) and who replaced him


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Are they still a thing?

In today's Sun on Sunday

Jenrick has stated we need TV debates between the
possible Leaders,

Yes
BBC1HD
ITV1HD
Ch4HD
Ch5HD
SkyNewsHD &
GBnewsHD

If I was a Tory, and I'm not, I'd vote for Kemi all day long.

To be fair, I don't mind her actually.

I think she's by far the best of a pretty poor bunch.

I agree Livia.
It's going to be a hard task for whoever wins.

Because I now cannot see Reform not being a growing force.
How much it grows will depend on how effective the new Con leader is.
I wonder if you agree with that.

It's kind of like in the 80s
Where the opposition vote split between Labour and the Alliance( SDP/LIbs).
It took at least 2 elections for Labour to just neutralise the effect of the Alliance.

However I have a feeling that Reform will more likely than not build on where they got to this election.
They did get the 3rd highest voting figures.

Yes one of the top
of the 6.