If you can bear it, let me take you back to the Conservative Party leadership election in the summer of 2022. Last week of July. Rishi Sunak appears in a Barbour jacket with a leafy landscape in the background and talks about the “extremely valuable” green belt. He says it is unacceptable that “green belt… Read More »
‘Basically true’: former prime minister Liz Truss – Andrew Crowley The memoirs of most Prime Ministers are a multi-volume snoozefest. Liz Truss posted the first incident in history that could accurately be described as a “struggle.” Truss, who had been at No10 for just 49 days (he notes that he was evacuated before his furniture… Read More »
There are 32 ministers at Sunak’s cabinet table; 23 are full members and nine were allowed to attend. Prime Minister Starmer, by contrast, may have a close-knit gang of four… (Aaron Chown/PA Wire) The history books will no doubt record that after the lies and chaos under Boris Johnson and the economic disaster under Liz… Read More »
Sajid Javid, Ben Wallace and Dominic Raab among those to resign More Conservative MPs are running at the next general election since Labour’s landslide in 1997. Fifty-seven Tories have said they plan to leave Parliament rather than seek re-election, with the poll expected to be held in 2024. There are fears that the Conservatives are… Read More »
Liz Truss’ attempt to restart her political career by founding a new right-wing Tory group has been rocked by chaos as some of her closest former allies stay away. Tuesday’s launch of Popular Conservatism, also known as PopCons, was rocked by former Truss chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng’s announcement that he would quit parliament at the general… Read More »
Chris Skidmore has already announced he is standing down as a Conservative MP at the next general election because his Kingswood constituency has been abolished. Half his seat would form a new constituency called North East Somerset and Hanham, which would have been safe Tory territory in normal times, but he did not try to… Read More »
Liz Truss rewards Brexiteers and those loyal to her personally, including former deputy chief of staff Ruth Porter – STEFAN ROUSSEAU/PA Liz Truss has rewarded Brexiteers and her personal loyalists with peers and other honors in her long-awaited resignation honors list. The former prime minister reportedly nominated 14 people – every three-and-a-half days – during… Read More »
The Conservative Party’s refusal to provide information about its leadership selection process left it “completely irresponsible” and with “unlimited power” over the selection of the new Prime Minister, the High Court was told. News outlet Tortoise Media is seeking to launch a legal challenge against the political party after it refused to answer nine questions… Read More »