Leadership Race

[Greenshake]

I predict Sunak, Mordaunt, Braverman and Johnson going for it.

Sorry if this is a silly question but can Johnson go for it?

I reckon Mordaunt v Sunak

I think so.

#TeamLettuce. It’s got the brains and the charisma, plus you can put it into salads, sandwiches and wraps. It’s the best choice available to the Tories IMO.

Penny.

Sunak has to much dirt to carry them through a GE.

If only Rory Stewart was still a Tory……

I don't think labour will let this go lightly though, they'll do everything they can for a general election.

I would support a GE in the early part of next year, but I think right now that would be way too chaotic. We just need someone to steady the ship for a few months first.

DH said he'd heard someone on the radio say Sunak - Hunt as the 'dream team' and next week will be spent debating PM vs Chancellor. In which case the MPs are pushing the party back to the centre and preparing for the next election.

Isn't it all both horrific and fascinating.

Johnson? He’s raking it in doing after dinner speaking jobs. No incentive for him to return at all.

Boris should never have gone in the first place, but I don't think the party will be prepared to admit they were wrong & bring him back.
Sunak, with Hunt staying at No 11, seems the obvious solution.

I think this is more about vindication and ego than money for him

Braverman, no way.

Sunak as PM with Hunt as Chancellor seems the least worse option then, as a PP said, GE early in 2023

Telegraph reporting that Johnson expected to run for PM!
surprised, thought he would have decided it was too much like hard work for him

Times reporting that Johnson will run 🤦‍♀️

You know why though….if a GE is to be called he’s probably the only one who can offer the Tories a chance of winning

He's their useful idiot 🙄

Sunak with Hunt in No11 I think it will be.

Makes sense, they will stabilise the ship, and bring the conservatives back to the centre ground ready for a GE.

There’s been some chat about Sunak as PM but Mordant as deputy. What’s that about?

Whoever, it’s a bloody travesty: GE needed.

In some ways BoJo is actually the sensible choice for the Tories to make for their own sake. His return would get rid of the "no mandate to govern" accusations as they could assert that he does have a mandate from the electorate having won the last GE. Would certainly weaken Labour's case for a GE to be called now.

I would not be in favour of a general election until spring 2023. It will be no more than a mudslinging distraction.

I vote for Larry

Johnson would have one hell of a brass neck if he runs, considering he was forced to resign only three months ago and was unable to hold together a cabinet.

(And one of the reasons he was forced to resign, Pincher, is still sitting in the Commons as yet uninvestigated.)

He also had one of the lowest public popularity ratings of any prime minister going. Ahem... until this one.

If he does run I can't see him getting very far. There certainly won't be a groundswell of support for him like there was last time. Just a few sad hangers-on.