Conservative leadership contest

If they choose anybody but Sunak, they’ll get a worse PM than Johnson

Brian Walker on July 16, 2022, 12:12 pm

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Photo courtesy ITV News Mick may be aiming at higher things but I’m stuck down low and dirty in the Tory leadership contest. I can’t take my eyes off it. Unusually the written press are ahead of TV thanks to social media with lots of talk about black propaganda, stalking horses and dirty dealing behind the scenes. So the first leadership debate on Channel 4 last night came as a welcome relief. Despite overheated claims in the press that the …

Paul Bew recycles his backstop plan to fill the Tories’ comprehension gap. “Stop punching below your weight.”

Brian Walker on June 17, 2019, 2:39 pm

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So have we got any closer to a cunning plan for getting rid of the backstop? In last night’s leader candidates’ debate and in this morning’s hustings before the Westminster lobby, plenty of macho but no real meat. Michael Gove says there is no candidate in the race who understands the politics of Ireland better than he does – he really does . He says he would look for other ways of avoiding the backstop. How well did he do? …