Who should replace Boris?

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If/when he goes. I know many would would prefer someone other than a Tory to do so but let’s be realistic. Out of the front runners in the cabinet, who would you want to replace him ant why?

Yes JeremyHunt appears to be only likely candidate with some experience. The only other one with enough experience and intelligence isMichael Gove. He is universally disliked but my opinion of him went up when he came out after the Brexit vote to say that Johnson was unfit to be PM. He was certainly right as I knew then.

Johnson got rid of all the half decent Tories.

And his voters cheered wildly as he did so. I 100% blame them for dragging our country through the mud.

Is that tub of lard which once replaced Roy Hattersley on Have I Got News For You still available?

@Beck30

Is that tub of lard which once replaced Roy Hattersley on Have I Got News For You still available?

Good shout - I have a lot more respect for that tub of lard than Boris.

None of them but if I had to choose I'd pick someone as utterly shit as he is so we go into the GE with people having their eyes wide open.

I've heard a lot of folk say how Sunak is great, all because of furlough, his voting record shows he doesn't give a damn about those in poverty.

My ideal would be a GE right now.

The Cabinet were selected specifically because they are “yes men” who value their own careers over the country’s wellbeing. I mean look at thm, you didn’t think they were selcted for their brains did you?

There are plenty of mature rational Conservative MPs with integrity who aren’t in the Cabinet. One of them would be wonderful.

Bitnif I HAD to choose from th Caninet? Ben Wallace. Sometihe says things that imply both competence and integrity and that’s
what we need.

Not Truss, defenitely not Gove or Hunt, not Sunak or Javid. Absolute worst option would be Raab.

Not a single member of the cabinet inspires me with any confidence. Rees-Mog would be the worst choice of all, possibly the only person alive who would be an even worse than Johnson, he’s absolutely skin crawlingly vile even by Tory cabinet standards.

Keir Starmer would be the best option from current cabinet/party leaders. Andy Burnham would be better though.

I'm another Rory Stewart fan , despite not being a Tory voter.

@LemonSwan

I am going to say Rishi. I thought he did really well with striking the balance on the COVID packages - and I say that as someone who missed out on any payments / support but he had to draw the line somewhere.

Not after he lost £4.3 billion to fraud and isn't doing anything to recover it. Just think, if that money had gone into, say, the education system, how much good it could have done.

Hang on why can’t we have David Davies??

It’s a shame that people like Stewart, Soubry, Grieve and Warsi are no longer in the frame.

If those who are, I’d pick Hunt or Javid. I’m not a Conservative voter though.

Someone compared Truss to Mavis Wilton, and I’d agree. Seems nervy, limited gravitas, robotic.

Can’t stand Patel’s policies although I think she must have something about her to have achieved such high office from her background.

Gove always features favourably on “celebrities you’ve met, what were they like” threads on here, but I can’t see the party supporting him.

My ideal would be a GE right now.

I think the Tories would win.
Even with Johnson as leader.
I really despair at the road the voting public have taken us down . I'm ashamed to be British at the moment.

Liz Truss has clearly had some coaching recently.
I was thinking the same yesterday watching her on Sky News. I hope it won’t be Liz Truss. I really dislike her.
I thought that Jeremy Hunt was a better candidate then Boris in the previous round. I still think the same. He’s got experience and he’s sort of Cameron’s style when he’s trying to do right things selfishly in order to keep his job. He would never miss Cobra meetings as Boris did. Boris doesn’t like to work at all. It’s obvious from the beginning.

Of all the MP's the have been mentioned, I wonder why it's only Liz Truss who is being described in such vile was as:
'dead behind the eyes'
'emotionless'
'waffly'
'out of her depth'
'beige'

• Vile ways as

I think the reason Liz Truss is being pinpointed here is that she has clearly put some money into changing her public demeanour so is noticeably different to how she was before. People have noticed and commented on that.

The others have always been this awful.

@Howshouldibehave

I think the reason Liz Truss is being pinpointed here is that she has clearly put some money into changing her public demeanour so is noticeably different to how she was before. People have noticed and commented on that.

The others have always been this awful.

But all the MP's in the public domain will have done that. It's just more noticeable when women do it, because women are expected to look good and act good in a way that men are not held to the same expectations. The biggest changes are always in the women. Surely you remember what Nicola Sturgeon used to look like? Theresa May? Cherie Blair?

Sir Keir Starmer.

Failing that, there's no current Cabinet member who inspires confidence.

Rory Stewart is the nearest to a competent, thinking Tory & he's gone.

Unfortunately the Party cleared out a lot of the relatively experienced / diligent bunch (of heartless bastards) a few years ago to make way for Johnson's Party Crew.

Rishi would probably prefer Truss to be 'in' for a few months. Like one of those 'nappies' in packs of raw meat from the supermarket, she will be used to mop up the undesireable stuff before one of the Old Boys Club is shoehorned in. But Gove is power hungry enough to try now too.

Dominic Grieve and Ken Clarke to come out of retirement and sort it out. Shame boris Johnson sacked anyone competent or principled

But Jackie weaver is a good call

@Kendodd

Johnson got rid of all the half decent Tories.

And his voters cheered wildly as he did so. I 100% blame them for dragging our country through the mud.

Spot on!

@lumpofcomfort

Priti Patel or Michael Gove because surely nobody would vote for such unpleasant people therefore the Conservatives wouldn't win the next election (wishful thinking...)

I like your thinking there

Yvette Cooper definitely. Assuming of course she even wants it...

Ooo as a wildcard and clearly not an MP but how about Dominic Cummings?

Said clearly as a joke but actually thinking about it.....

Rory Stewart , but ( as I found out today ) he isn't an MP

I think Rishi Sunak .He seems very efficient and managed to decorate his No 11 apartment out of his own pocket! Jeremy Hunt I really dislike .Vivid images of him sneaking around Hospitals checking on NHS staff springs to mind. Liz Truss not enough experience ,Micheal Gove just NO!