Next Conservative leader

I think the calculation most of them are making is who stands the best chance of winning the next election so I have a chance of retaining my cushy number. Who can reverse the mess created by Boris & Truss comes a very distant 2nd. 

Well the opposition can only remove them if there is a GE, Tory MPs will not want that to happen (it would be like turkey’s voting for Christmas), so they will hold onto power until the very last minute, then the general public will have their say.

It is sad that labour couldn’t challenge them in 2016 and again in 2019.  Brexit was mooted by Cameron in 2016, winning over a lot of the electorate and Boris’s whole mandate was based on getting brexit done (I wonder how many brexiteer Tory voters now believe the hype about how it would transform our economy and help us to deliver all the new hospitals etc). 

Also in 2019 the Labour Party were almost as much of a laughing stock as the current Tory party and were totally unelectable under the idiotic Corbin and his lieutenants.  It’s interesting to see that the Labour Party members voted to elect him over Milliband, Burnham etc, and caused the party to implode, just like the Tory members voted in Truss and saw the government and the economy implode.

Its a tragedy for the country that labour have been so weak. The tories have known this and robbed the country blind. All labour need to do is simply speak up for the masses. Sadly they havent communicated well enough with the 34 million workers and the millions of sme's. Instead theyve fallen into the trap of playing to the westminster media instead of the public. I think rachel reeves gave a good account of things last week and starmer has played a good straight bat recently. But hes not as popular as he thinks. 

Think this is spot on

Legend I agree wholeheartedly with most of the above. As a brexiteer but not a tory voter I am not convinced that I am qualified to answer but what the hell. I think its a pretty pointless exercise trying to gauge any economic benefits gained or otherwise by the Brexit situation. As soon as Brexit arrived so did Covid along with the crippling effects not only to public health & well being but also to economic performance throughout Europe. 

Very soon after we started returning to some sort of normality Putin invaded Ukraine which has again led to totally unforeseen economic carnage throughout Europe. These two episodes are each once in a lifetime catastrophes but economies worldwide have had to try to deal with both within a couple of years.

Lets be honest to try to govern through these times would have been a challenge for any cabinet. The public would have accepted leaders making mistakes but not the downright lying & cheating which we have unfortunately been exposed to not only by Boris Johnson. We are not going to see an election any time soon - Starmer has to keep the pressure on but will find Sunak a totally different adversary than Boris. That is not to say that Labour don't have a good chance of success at the next election. Sunak will not be popular as he will have to make some tough decisions but he surely won't score so many own goals as his predecessors.