Turns out they can’t run a party, let alone run a country.
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Rumours are Boris is going to stand, but he is hardly the unity candidate the party needs right now.
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results.
…as a random novelist from the 1980s once said.
He’ll need to stop faithfully representing his constituents from sunny Dominican Republic first, and be willing to take a pay cut again.
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No chance it’ll be Boris. It’s Mourdant or Sunak I think.
This might be a slight tactic around making us feel ‘relief’ when one of those two gets coronated
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Crowned. “Coronated” is 
but sadly I expect to hear a lot of it in the next year.
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I don’t see any realistic chance of either.
Bear in mind the members are unlikely to have a meaningful say, and at this point MPs are pretty much solely concerned with retaining their seats at the next election.
Penny is probably the best choice, the only barrier is that just a few months ago they chose Sunak so it looks strange to switch. Sunak would do a similar job honestly, they will both now safely follow Hunts new economic plan
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I don’t think would want a technocrat like Sunak to be PM. So i think it would be Penny Mordaunt (whom I personally have no clue where she came from). On one hand Jeremy Hunt wouldn’t want him to be PM either because having someone who has chancellor experience as PM will be conflicting with him
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Does a week count as “experience” ?
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Sunak was chancellor much longer than a week.
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Yeah I think just over two years
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Sorry, I misread that. I thought you meant about Hunt being PM
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I think he actually ruled himself out to stand for PM Jeremy Hunt rules himself out of running to be new PM
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He did. Mourdant / Hunt would definitely be the more natural paring. Then again, Hunt and Sunak’s economic approach is very similar (some might say Hunt just did everything Sunak said he would do if he were PM) and Sunak’s experience would be very calming for the markets.
Won’t be long till we find out, sounds like it could be early next week if one of the two ‘candidates’ they put forward stands down
Yes indeed, all PMs get this (not sure how this is ‘new’, it’s about 50 years old 
)
It’s not unusual, US and Germany do the same thing, among others.
Still probably not designed for PMs who only served for six weeks, if she has any decency she would forgo it.
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Wonder what happens if none of them get 100 nominations 
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There will be horse trading.
“I’ll stop trying to stand and encourage my supporters to move their support to you in return for a cushty cabinet position.”
As said above, likely that has already happened and there are two candidates earmarked already (or possibly even just one).
Leaves Johnson with a very high bar to get over if he’s to squeak in there also. Seems unlikely he’ll make it, there can’t be 100 nutjobs like Dorries and Fabricant out there.
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Well they overwhelmingly wanted him last time?
He’s the only person remotely qualified to get us out this mess. Shame his wife didn’t pay her taxes, eh?
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