UK: Next Conservative leader

[Phony Moderate]

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Agreed. But why they chose Hague and IDS over him....I don't know. Yeah, there's an obvious excuse....but still.

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He would make the best leader out of all the current Tory cabinet ministers, imo. He has a good personality, is a skillful debater and he seems to have become more moderate in recent years.

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Hmmmm....maybe.

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Not the most likeable person in the world, but a good debater, and probably quite a clever man in his own way.

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Hasn't made much of a name for himself yet....we'll see.

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No love for Boris Johnson here...

Why would he want to go back to being an MP?

No matter how weak a candidate Livingstone is, Johnson has only got (at best) a 50% chance of re-election; the second set of elections is usually brutal for governments in their first term.

Huh?  2001, 1983, October 1974 (if that counts), 1966 and 1955 were pretty good elections for the first-term incumbent governments.

Unless you're only referring to the London mayoral elections, but we only have 2004 to go on as an example of what you're saying...

1966 possibly doesn't count either. But in the local elections between 1966-1970....Labour got....errr....hammered, to put it mildly.