Sunak's The One.

[sandyRoe]

Mordant has pulled out.
Pity, great pity.

[Untitled]

it is not an uncommon point of view to claim that blair and brown were tories… some on the left say so too.

I don’t agree with it though. Blair and Brown dropped their political opposition to thatcherism for the sake of expediency but they also did things that no tory including thatcher would ever have dreamed of. And the tories at the time certainly did not consider them to be tory lite.

[jno]

just as Cameron modelled himself on Blair, apart from pigs' heads.

[Bazile]

// electronic tags... Jeffrey Archer found himself in a spot of bother? //

Archer had long left the Commons by then


And?

[sp1814]

Wasn’t Johnson the first PM to break the law whilst in office (that we know of)?

[Paigntonian]

Sunak's brief piece to camera at CCHQ was decidedly odd.

[perseverer]

TTT, would it not be a good idea for the new PM to spend the next months running the country competently if he can, rather than devote himself to bashing labour and their leader, which seems to be your idea of what a PM should do?

[Mozz71]

Er Tora, I thought you despised the backstabbing Sunak. Is it a case of "anyone will do as long as they're a Tory"?

[weecalf]

Where does this leave the wonderful JRM ?

[naomi24]

Jno, Where do you get it from? Braverman didn’t ‘bring down Truss’.

[sandyRoe]

Wasn't it her hubris wot done for her? ^

[tiggerblue10]

I was hoping Sunak would win and in the end he didn't have any competition. Lets give him a chance and see if he can pull rabbits out of a hat and do something positive with the economy.

[burlyshirley1]

Don't like him, never will.

[davebro]

//Don't like him, never will.//

He'll be devastated.

[DTCwordfan]

sp, one could argue that it was Tony Bliar as he broke international law over Iraq and he prevented his ministers from debating the legality of his action - according to Two-Jags Prescott.

[naomi24]

I don’t think it’s a shame Mordaunt pulled out. I think it’s a good thing. Like her predecessor she wouldn’t have lasted five minutes and we’d have been going through the whole process again. Fat lot of good that would have done the country.

[DTCwordfan]

I would have loved to see the HeadGirl take on the Beerwarmer at PM's Q time but, shame, it's not to be.

[burlyshirley1]

Couldn't give a stuff whether he's devastated or not davebro. My opinion, like so many others on here, and I am entitled to it.

[ToraToraTora]

//Er Tora, I thought you despised the backstabbing Sunak. Is it a case of "anyone will do as long as they're a Tory"? // - yes for the purposes of the leadership contest now that's over it's in everyone's interest to unite behind the new leader. Not saying he's now my favourite but for the good of the party I'll support our leader. I'd rather have a non favourite Tory than Labour.

[davebro]

//Couldn't give a stuff whether he's devastated or not davebro. My opinion, like so many others on here, and I am entitled to it.//

See this? It's the smallest violin in the world & it's playing just for you.

[douglas9401]

Anybody said 'dark horse' yet?

I think he might be good.