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Exactly. Politically a good move in terms of unifying the party. The bitch can be ditched when convenient, job done.

Part of the party unification process - a sop to the nutty wing of the party by giving a job to a fairly inconsequential nonentity. It'll be alright if he keeps her leash and muzzle on.

181 Tory MPs actually declared for him - three times as many as for Johnson and Mordaunt combined (38 dec;ared for Johnson, 25 for Mordaint; sauce- the FT). 55% or not, that is a substantial mahrity. Anyway, the right man (among the choices actually available) has got the job, terrible Truss's...

Supporters of the mad Truss/mad Kwarteng mad economics faction leaving the building. Good. A strong majority of Conservative MPs wanted Sunak (and very wisely didn't give the party members a chance to vote) so this is probably as near to unification of a Tory government available. Not greatly...

Putting your fingers in your ears and shouting nah, nah, nah, not listening is a great tactic. Well done you for giving it another go - it's about time someone succeeded in making it work. Good luck!

That's what the article said .......................

Well, bearing in mind that Labour's 'Best Man for the Job' might well have been Diane Abbott, perhaps not surprising. With Labour's history and ethos of left wing policies, socially in favour of the working man, the under-dog, etc, the obvious thought would be that the under-privileged on...

Of course. And Keir Starmer is a lizard distantly related to the royal family, didn't you realise? They all own unicorns, you know...........

I fear this isn't going to end well. The parliamentary party will be very much in favour of Rishi (quite rightly IMHO - through the Covid turmoil years he at least showed he knew what he was doing!) and will offer the 167,000(?)ish Tory party members (less those who are not on Smart phones or...

Have no doubt, if the Russians give much of a shit at all, they'd rather have a complete wet lettuce-like nonentity in charge of us.