New Prime Minister for the UK?

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You’re being very unkind to snot.

He's the minister for brexit opportunities and government efficiency don't you know.

This is starting to be a very funny contest between the Tory leadership hopefuls. They are smearing each other left, right and centre with stories of affairs, dodgy business and tax scandals. It's like watching Dynasty or something!

Yes I do realise the fate of our country is at stake with this contest for leadership but the last few years have been grim so I intend to laugh at these greedy people and their antics.

I know. Its reminding me of the big brother house.

The timetable has been released for choosing the next Tory leader: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-62129267

The whole process should take about 2 months, the same amount of time it took to confirm Boris Johnson as Theresa May's replacement. Nominations close on 12 July (today), followed by a week to decide the final two candidates. The UK should have its new PM confirmed by 5 September.

A bucket of dirt was rejected on the basis that it was overqualified.

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The Guardian has a leadership odds tracker -
Implied probability of being next Conservative leader

Liz Truss climbing rapidy? Nooooo!

I'm not convinced that Truss has got the overall thrust to be PM. I'm surprised she's up there in the top three.

I'm looking at my odds checker and I can see Badenoch in fourth place. She's rapidly climbing. I think she was behind Braverman yesterday and even she's coming in in sixth place today.

I mean it's not exactly easy pickings is it. The tories are gonna have to pick the most electable person for the polls. I just don't know who that could be right now.

Agreed - but then, we did end up with the clown Johnson whose only detectable thrust was to his own advantage...

Thanks for the information, everyone! Very interesting.

It's like watching a car crash. I mean the Tories, not this forum

I was glad to see that Rees-Mogg declined to enter the contest. I knew he was too lazy! And who would want the vampire undertaker as PM anyway. Or the 'haunted pencil' as they call him

Yeah, Grant Shapps has also stood down as well.

By the end of today they will have whittled them down anyway.

So at the moment we have: Sunak, Mordaunt, Truss and Tugendhat who have definitely gone through to the next round. Sunak with the most mps backing him (45).

Badenoch needs four more backers, Hunt needs 5, Zahawi 6, Braverman 8 and Javid needs 9 more to get through to the ballot.

Let's see what happens there then.

https://news.sky.com/story/conservative ... r-12649875

Badenoch sounds like a right loon anyway, I hope she doesn't make it through. She said:

We must require schools to concentrate on effective whole-class teaching of rigorous subjects rather than allocating tight resources to superfluous support staff and peripheral activities. (from The Guardian)

Anyone who has children knows this won't work. Children (like adults) are all different. What suits one won't suit another, so they need differentiated activities. Children with special needs...like autism...will end up going to special schools because they will find this rigorous 'one size fits all' teaching is impossible to cope with. My daughter has certainly needed all the specialist support she can get in order to get through school.

I think Badenoch wants all children to be the same and anyone different will be relegated to 'somewhere else.'

And what's a school going to be like without groups and clubs? A school focusing entirely on academic subjects is a sure fire way to alienate some children and ensure they fail!

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Patel's dropped out.

I'm so glad.

Badenoch and Braverman have also made it clear that tax cuts will definitely have a direct effect on welfare benefits. Whether you love them or hate them, at least they're saying what none of the others are prepared to say.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/ ... t-27460465