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They will tolerate anyone who (a) wins elections and (b) cuts taxes, hates the EU, makes the right noises about immigration and (c) keeps increasing their pensions.
When it comes to naked self-interest the Tory party is a remarkably equal opportunities sort of party.
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Mrs May having a thoroughly justified dig with some not at all blatant subtext, today.
Also, the real reason he would not vacate the job immediately - Carrie would NOT tolerate THAT!
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Just give me this one! Iâll worry about that laterâŚ
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How hard would it be to get Larry the Cat into the PM role? He wouldnât even have to move.
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Being a TER in the Conservative party hardly makes you stand out though.
Very. Cats are natural egoist anarchists.
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I would hope Larry isnât a tory!
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Hmmm - well, they ARE self-centred, rugged individualists. 
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This is wonderful
ETA BECAUSE OF A DUMB RULE NOT ALLOWING A PERSON TO POST THREE CONSECUTIVE POSTS!!! (@orenwolf, canât something be done about this on long-standing open threads like this? I mean, itâs been 15 hours!)
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The Daily Mail has become a parody of itself.
I need to ask, what the fuck is the Blairite left, and how far-right do you have to be to believe it exists?
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I believe that question is answered by the words âBy Peter Hitchensâ at the top of the page. Heâs so far off to the right that his neocon, Bush-supporting culture warrior of a brother was the left-wing one in the family. The hate-mail truly hasnât moved much in political stance since the 1930s.
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Sarah Vine on the electrifying âŚ
⌠sacking of her ex-husband, Michael Gove?
ETA and we could actually do with some âgreyer politicsâ for a while. Itâs not a fucking branch of the entertainment industry, FFS!
And the Laughing Cavalier was an entirely unknown, anonymous person. Nobody knows who he was. Somehow I donât think the Daily Heil had that in mind when using it to describe Johnson.
I was half expecting a âDo Cabinet resignations cause cancer?â headline.
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cock-a-hoop
The Roundheads of the establishment have silenced the laughing Cavalier
Blairite Left
Good question. Those are just unhinged headlines, arenât they?
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Stop trying to make âblobâ happen, Daily Heil. Itâs not going to happen.
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I think this is the right place for this:
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The former education secretary-turned chancellor is hoping to succeed Boris Johnson as prime minister, bringing his enormous wealth as a multi-millionaire and experience handling the COVID-19 vaccine roll-out into the race.
But in seeking to win over the 100,000 Conservative Party members who will vote for the next leader, Zahawi will flex his culture war muscles when he officially launches his campaign Monday (11 July).
He will say: âI will also continue to focus on letting children be children, protecting them from damaging and inappropriate nonsense being forced on them by radical activists.â
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I guarantee he will be out in round one, that 99% of party members have never heard of him - in fact that many Tory MPs have never heard of him. He must figure this is a way to get some profile and maybe angle for a job in whoeverâs electedâs government. Hard to believe he has 8 serious Tory MP supporters (the requirement to enter).
Rehman Chishti becomes 11th candidate to enter race
Following on the back of Liz Trussâ announcement, another leadership bid has been launched, this time by Kent MP Rehman Chishti.
Chishti, who was appointed as a minister in the Foreign Office last week, has become the 11th candidate to announce he will stand. He had previously teased he might run in an interview with PoliticsHome last week. The 43-year-old, who went to Aberystwyth University, enters the contest as its biggest outsider.
In a marked contrast with Rishi Sunakâs slick video, or even Sajid Javidâs repurposed one from 2019, Chishti has posted an address to camera on his Facebook page.
In it he said he offers a âfresh startâ, similar to Tom Tugenhadtâs âclean startâ that he repeated during his breakfast TV interviews earlier.
Chishti mentions coming to Gillingham in 1984 and not being able to speak any English.
âFor me itâs important to ensure that everyone who works hard, who is determined, who is perseveres has a government that is on their side. That means lower taxes, small state, [and a] big society.
âIt means ensuring that you have fresh ideas, and a proven track record of coming to the table with ideas and creativity to help improve peopleâs lives,â he said.
âFor me itâs about aspirational conservatism, fresh ideas, fresh team for a fresh start taking our great country forward.â
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