Showing posts with label Conservative leadership. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Conservative leadership. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 09, 2024

The New Tory Leader Will Be Badenoch or Jenrick. Either Would Be a One-way Ticket to Another Political Planet

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THE GUARDIAN: By rejecting James Cleverly, MPs spurned the chance to renew their party. Their chosen path is further right, a blow for all w...
Sunday, October 23, 2022

Boris Johnson Says He Will Not Stand in Tory Leadership Contest

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THE GUARDIAN: Move means Rishi Sunak almost certain to be PM Boris Johnson at Gatwick Airport on Saturday morning after cutting short his ...

Penny Mordaunt: ''People Deserve a Leader Who Understands the Life They Lead'

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The country deserves a leader who “understands the life they lead”, Commons leader Penny Mordaunt has said. Speaking to Sky News this morn...

Rishi Sunak Enters Race to Be Next Prime Minister

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Rishi Sunak has announced his bid to become the next Conservative leader and prime minister, six weeks after Liz Truss beat him to the top j...

Tories Choose Third PM This Year As Reality of Brexit Bites

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Following the resignation of Liz Truss after just 44 days in office, the Tories are choosing their fifth prime minister in six years and the...
Friday, October 21, 2022

Boris Johnson 'Flying Back to Take Soundings' over Leadership Bid

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A former adviser to Boris Johnson says the former prime minister is returning from holiday to consider joining the Conservative Party leader...
Wednesday, August 24, 2022

Liz Truss Plan to Divert NHS Funds to Social Care Is ‘Robbing Peter to Pay Paul’

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THE GUARDIAN: Health expert says NHS needs money too and diverting promised £13bn is not a sustainable solution Liz Truss said in 2009 tha...
Saturday, August 20, 2022

Michael Lambert : Clueless Liz Truss Set to Turbo-charge UK Economy!

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Aug 20, 2022 Liz Truss says she will TURBO-CHARGE the UK economy, whatever that means? The seemingly endless Tory leadership fiasco continue...
Friday, August 19, 2022

Thatcherism Is an Obsolete Ideology – But It’s the Only One That Sunak and Truss Have

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THE GUARDIAN – OPINION: The Tories see fresh thinking as a luxury, so their leaders are sticking with an orthodoxy that’s well past its sell...
Thursday, August 11, 2022

Rishi Sunak Has a Sterling Résumé. It’s Not Helping Him Replace Boris Johnson.

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THE NEW YORK TIMES: Mr. Sunak is viewed by many in his party as too distant from ordinary Britons, and is being blamed by some for setting ...

The Guardian View on Tory Infighting: A Bad Policy Auction

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THE GUARDIAN – EDITORIAL: ‘Blue-on-blue’ bickering makes a lively spectacle – but it gives a narrow, rightwing frame to bigger, broader issu...
Tuesday, August 02, 2022

Liz Truss Dismissal of ‘Attention Seeker’ Sturgeon Will Horrify Scots, Says SNP

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THE GUARDIAN: Tory activists cheered leadership favourite when she said first minister should be ignored Liz Truss says she would ignore ...
Tuesday, July 26, 2022

Truss v Sunak: A Sorry Spectacle of Playground Bragging from a Party without a Purpose

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THE GUARDIAN: When it comes to the most pressing issues for our nation, all this divided Tory party can do is repress, displace and deny R...
Saturday, July 23, 2022

Michael Lambert : The Tories Would be Mad to Choose Truss but They Probably Will

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Jul 23, 2022 Liz Truss is currently expected to beat Rishi Sunak in the race to become the next UK prime minister. The eventual winner will ...
Friday, July 22, 2022

The Guardian View on Tory Leadership and Democracy: A Dangerous Deficit

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THE GUARDIAN – EDITORIAL: The next prime minister will have a threadbare mandate and badly depleted authority Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss, t...