Braverman has actually backed Sunak. Reading all the Boris fanatics commenting on Conservative twitter sites (mainy Guido Fawkes) is actually quite interesting. For all of them BoJo is a hero and Sunak is a snake - if he wins then they'll never vote Conservative at the GE. Anyone who backs Sunak...
Will be slightly surprised now if Boris gets the 100 nominees, or announces his candidacy. In which case, question will be whether his supporters switch on masse to Mourdant, pushing it to the members.
Sunak as PM still seems the least likely outcome to me.
The country doesn't want the Tories to win the next general election, the country wants them to keep things stable and rebuild the economy a bit before they are forced to call a GE and then the next government can take things forward.
Individual Tory MPs want a chance of holding their seats...
Its remarkable really. We've had non stop Tories on the TV and radio the past couple of days saying that what we need now is Unity and Stability. I couldn't agree more.
And then Boris steps into the leadership race. His supporters call it 'Boris or Bust'. His opposers say they'll quit the...