“He’s the right person because he’s affable. We need to be seen as a likeable party again, but he’s a conviction politician as well” the former deputy party chairman says.
He defends his record on welform reform as work and pensions secretary, and predicts he will copy Cameron by becoming leader against the odds.
“You’re elected as a Conservative, you serve as a Conservative,” he says.
The Transport Secretary says the PM will lead his party into the General Election with a plan for the country.
If, in either respect, that is what you do believe then I’d love to see your evidence; but if you don’t, then what possible reason could there be for sticking with Sunak?
The Daily Telegraph has cleared its front page for a poll “commissioned by a group of Conservative donors called the Conservative Britain Alliance…working with Lord Frost”.
Braverman is third on 14 per cent. No-one else makes it to double percentage figures.
When the final two candidates emerge, they have serious repair work to do. They must ensure they’re speaking to the public about cost-of-living issues.
Badenoch was also top, Truss also second and Tugendhat also fifth in the main survey from which these results are drawn. Sunak was fourth in the main survey and third in these run-offs. He thus swaps places with Mordaunt.
And so Cabinet members other than Oliver Dowden take the advice I offered them on June 5 – namely, to tell the Prime Minister he should resign before he is forced out.
If we hold a leadership contest, we could have the open debate that we desperately need — and give ourselves a fighting chance in 2024.
Our findings and theirs are in the same territory even allowing for six months’ or so difference. There is no decisive view on who any replacement should be.
Whether or not you want to bin Johnson, it’s important that we give his replacement some serious thought.
He’s written a new book about avoidable deaths in the NHS, which plainly made a deep impression on him as Secretary of State.
MPs are better placed to understand public opinion. After all, they depend upon it to be re-elected.