Next Tory Leader run-offs. 2) Gove 43 per cent, Hunt 29 per cent.
Again, note the abstention rate. Almost a fifth of respondents don’t vote at all. So we have yet to find a candidate who can gain half the vote.
Again, note the abstention rate. Almost a fifth of respondents don’t vote at all. So we have yet to find a candidate who can gain half the vote.
This finding suggests that many members will sit on their hands if two candidates who voted Remain in 2016 reach the final.
“That’s why I’ve asked the Bishop of Truro…to conduct an independent review into the global persecution of Christians.”
Also: Dugdale wins lawsuit against cybernat blogger; devolution row as English hospitals shut out Welsh patients over funding; and a week in SNP bad news.
Our conferences give members the chance to speak and put questions to senior Party figures, and our training equips activists to take on the Left.
Plus: What would it take to get the Cabinet leavers to resign? Clarke’s Maastricht Treaty Customs Union moment. And: in defence of Robbie Gibb.
Next time round, we will try run-offs between some of the main candidates, which are a bit ovedue.
Such as: do you see Brexit as a help or a hindrance – and what’s your vision for our post-Leave country?
May should go in mid-April. But attempts to appoint a successor uncontested will only stir further chaos in the hen coop.
The idea might suit the leadership aspirations of some potential successors. But wishful thinking and stubborn reality don’t mix – at least not in this case.
Also: Tory MPs lead the charge against prosecutions of ex-servicemen who served in Ulster; Ulster Unionist leader savages DUP; and more.
As a free vote, this may give us the clearest picture of the divisions at the very top of the Party over how to approach Brexit.
“The UK has an unbreakable commitment to our 2.4 billion friends across the world in the Commonwealth family.”
It is striking how little the former Foreign Secretary is doing to maintain his lead. Then again, he scarcely needs to stir – for the moment.
These archaic machines cause NHS patients to miss appointments, hospitals to lose records, and cost millions of pounds in paper storage each year.