Elizabeth Truss – UK Parliament official portraits 2017
Over in the UK Liz Truss has bowed to the inevitable and has announced her resignation as leader of the Conservative Party.
A new leadership contest has been triggered. Unlike the last contest this one will only last a week and contestants will need at least 100 MPs supporting their candidacy. The last contest involved the contenders travelling throughout the country and slagging each other off. This time the party hierarchy wants to avoid this.
Boris Johnson is said to be wanting to run again. Imagine …
Rishi Sunak is also said to want to put his hand up. His economic orthodoxy could give him an advantage. So bad is the Conservative Party’s economic handling reputation that installing an economically orthodox leader should be a no brainer. Time will tell.
If you need to understand the Conservative Party’s underlying problems this twitter feed by Russ Cheshire sums it up extraordinarily well. Especially his description of the party as being shapeshifters.
I think I will follow his final comment this evening and toast the demise of yet another conservative leader.
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