Gove also suggested Sunak had been “vindicated” for his criticism’s of Truss’s proposals over the summer.
This year has shown that our current leadership election system is untenable. Yet to replace it should mean compensating members with an expansion of their control of the party, including funds, candidate selection, and policy.
The new Prime Minister baffled the Opposition by mixing high-minded friendliness with low blows.
Since the Crash we’ve failed to grow at a per capita rate of more than roughly one per cent, home ownership is stagnant, and savings rates have steadily declined.
On Johnson: “I know he would agree that the mandate my party earned in 2019 is not the sole property of any individual”
The Conservatives can only have a hope of improving their position if they realise how bad it is.
“We simply cannot afford to be a low-growth country where the Government takes an increasing share of our national wealth.”
The recent history of the Conservative Party and the country is the ultras have had their way on both policy and personnel. The result – for both party and country – is now clear to see.
Conservative MPs, peers, donors, hacks and activists caper their way towards an open grave, with Johnson himself leading the procession. The dance possesses them; it has a momentum of its own; they are powerless to stop.
He cannot now fulfil the great, unavoidable function of any Conservative leader, which is to unite the party. The wounds are too recent and too raw.
Two months ago, I warned that you could ignore Truss’s campaign pledges, and that her premiership would herald higher taxes, more borrowing, and spending cuts. Unfortunately, I have been entirely vindicated.
A candidate will be required to have 100 supporters. As I write, the Conservative MPs most likely to achieve that total are Penny Mordaunt and Rishi Sunak.
“It’s certainly not a circumstance that I would wish to see,” says the Chairman of the 1922 Committee
The Prime Minister resigns as leader of the Conservative Party after only 45 days.
Truss’s administration, whether fairly or not, was perceived to have backtracked on some of the party’s key environmental commitments.