There was also the covid fine, which felt on the nose when in the last leadership race when it was part of the issue with Johnson. But I don’t feel like the public hold it against him tbh, no one can envisage him at a party anyway!
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I mean, I’d be fine with Cruella. Would hasten the Nasty Party’s obliteration.
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I think they would prefer Penny over Rishi tbh. They want someone who can do the politics talk (personally haven’t heard her do that myself, other than reporters constantly going on about how she took a good position when Truss couldn’t be bothered to turn up to the commons)
If they were smart enough to save something for themselves in the next general election, I hope they will pick someone people know about and have seen throughout the pandemic etc. also on the other hand he has just disappeared and haven’t said anything since he lost the election
Definitely lol! I was talking to some work people and they all unianimously agreed that she gives one off a horrible human being vibes
Penny has had a few good opportunities to show that she does at least seem professional. She led the accession council ceremony of King Charles III and then obviously had the opportunity the other day in the commons.
I think Rishi is a given considering he was the MPs choice last time, but I do think they may be a bit cautious about putting him in now when chances are, they will still lose any upcoming election.
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It just dawned on me what a depressing election Sunak vs Starmer would be. Two people who occupy the same middle ground and don’t seem anything other than what’s boring and obvious. You could barely pick a thread between them most days.
Mourdant vs Starmer, honestly I think that could be an easy win for Mourdant if she turns out as well spoken as she’s seemed so far
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Sunak it is, then 
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Whatever you think of Boris, you need to remember that he did manage to win a general election and is probably the most popular with the party membership.
His becoming PM again would provide more legitimacy against calls for a new GE.
Whether he gets enough support from MPs is another questions
I appear to have got this wrong and I hate it so much:
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25 is still a long way off 100! You are safe for a fair bit.
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Boris won’t get 100 votes so let him attempt to run. It’ll be fun to hear him pipe up until the actual nominations end, and then even more fun to see him humiliated, again. Not that he’ll really show it.
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There’s still quite a high chance that a parliamentary enquiry would find he misled parliament in a few months time and put the government in another crises where he is forced to resign again. He spent the last year of his premiership lurching from crisis to crisis, the fact he won the election was the only reason he lasted so long in the first place.
Doubt the majority will be tempted to risk that really. They will look for ‘stable’ now.
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Too late.
The horse has bolted! 
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Where is the 25 number coming from? I’ve looked around on BBC to find the no of MPs voting but there is no such information. I presume this is just a collection of MPs who have publicly announced who they would vote for?
Mentioned here, but the genuine source is not revealed.
and here
Boris won the GE in 2019 on a lie (that he could make Brexit work – it still isn’t working, by the way) and Tory party members showed again with Liz that they’ll elect the person who is telling them what they want to hear, not the best person for the job.
Ridiculous to ask the same handful of people (who have demonstrated they can’t be trusted with such a decision) to pick the next PM.
General. Election. NOW.
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Not a surprise from those 2 local papers - both Labour areas and didn’t fall to the tories last time.
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That last one is also from East Lancashire, where a spade is a spade. They tend to say it as they see it.
Interestingly, our local MP happens to be Jake Berry. Y’know, that Jake Berry.
Funnily enough, he rarely pops up around these parts unless it’s to give a shop an award. I doubt he’d like what he heard.
Also, Jack Straw, even when he was Home Secretary used to stand on a box in Blackburn town centre regularly during his time.
Proper politics.
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