If May suddenly resigned, who would you want to be the new Pm?

[DionneB]

And why

I would want Jacob Rees Mog , best person at the moment imo

I'd say Kier Starmer, it's a good leadery name. My boyfriend has hopes pinned to Corbyn. As a left field suggestion I'd suggest Patrick Stewart, Picard will guide the way "make it so"

Caroline Lucas....by miles

Amber Rudd is the only Conservative I rate

Keir Starmer or Caroline Lucas. Def not Yvette Cooper. Where has she been during last 2 years where we've had a disgracefully weak opposition? I reckon she's completely (and disappointingly) self-interested.

Take the time to find out a bit more about Yvette. She is one a small number of MPs leading the charge on modelling the disproportionate impact of austerity cuts on women and has been holding the government’s feet to the fire on this. She’s done more about it than her colleagues on the Labour front bench. I think she’d do a much better job than Corbyn and his acolytes.

Keir Starmer is a good shout actually.

Zac Goldsmith for me. I would rather like seeing more of him and he is such a lovely bloke despite his aristocratic background.

After his shameful mayoral bid Goldsmith should keep a low profile until the end of time.

Jacob Rees Mogg
Boris Johnson
David Davies
Dominic Raab

There are a lot of people who don't understand how it works. If Mrs May resigns a Labour MP cannot be PM. You'd need a GE for that. Why are people saying Labour MP's? The Conservatives would elect a Conservative PM.

Doesn't David Lammy want to bring back smacking children, thus evoking a ltb from most of mums net?

Michael Rose

If it has to be a politician then Yvette Cooper.
If it has to be a Tory then Ken Clarke.

Corbyn for me. Really like his ideas and I think he genuinely cares.

Don’t like Yvette, if I had to choose another I would say Starmer.

Yvette Cooper. Shamelessly pushed back onto back benches by Corbyn and his bunch.
I know we'd need an election yo have a Labour pm. I'm not daft but the question was who would you like to see as PM. So that's who.
If it had to be a Tory - Ken Clark.

I'm sure everyone posting on this thread knows exactly how it works

Not JRM, Gove or Corbyn
I don’t really know who would be good and suitable

Given it has to be a Tory as they won the last election I will go with Sarah Wollaston. She is the only Tory with any integrity that I can see at the moment.

If it was a Lab government I would go with Yvette Cooper. I like Hillary Benn too.

Larry The Downing Street cat.

I really want the person who said Chuka is as bad as jrm to come back and say why- I'm intrigued.

If we were not limited to the current Westminster lot I would definitely have Tony Blair. None of this shit would have happened with him in charge.

I ungerstand that Yvette is seen as “too Blairite” to ever be acceptable to her party, which is a shame as she seems to be popular with the wider electorate and a highly capable politician. Labour need to decide whether they actually want to be in government so they can change things or whether they want to continue pissing about and playing politics at the margins. And I say this as a former Labour voter.

Also Jo Johnson is a good shout - firstly can you imagine how pissed the big brother would be....

Also after the brexit vote he contacted all universities to ask them to inform them of funding research and recruitment of researchers. Firstly showed he understood how uni worked (Lammy has never managed it) but also was listening about the impact.
But mainly cos it would really annoy B!

I wouid go for William Hague.

I think his experience is preferable to someone who has never held one of the great offices.

Dominic Grieve is acquitting himself pretty well at the moment. He's not charismatic but could be the safe pair of hands we need to steady the ship. If there were a general election and it went Labour's way, I think Kier Starmer is probably the best candidate.

Yoda, Gandalf or Dumbledore. 3 wise old heads.

Seriously John Smith or Mo Molam and we wouldn't be in this mess.

Ruth Davidson is the best of the current bunch but just had baby.

The question is who the heck actually wants the job? I'm convinced that is the reason Teresa May survived the vote of No Confidence a few weeks ago.

Oh do fuck off.

Tanya Byron

The duchess if you do some reading... You will see that actually Tony Blair it's the biggest reason probably that we are here!

Of the existing cabinet Rudd and Grieve appear at least to be grownups. Wollaston seems likeable and trustworthy but hugely unqualified for this specific task.