UK General Discussion: 2017 and onwards, Mayhem

[Cassius]

The 2017 Locals were before May was finally exposed as the Empress with no clothes though... and even then, whilst the Labour result was bad, it was a lot less bad than the national polls at the time were predicting in the general. I remember thinking at the time that, even allowing for the differences between local and national elections, the result showed that the Tory position was far less unassailable than many people assumed.

[Cassius]

Against the odds Hunt managed to become the longest serving Health Secretary in British history prior to this appointment.

Really at this point DExEU should be folded back into the foreign office, given that the negotiations are clearly being handled by the PM’s office and Robbins, and with two of the ‘Three Brexiteers’ gone there’s no point in keeping what essentially was a Potemkin department going for the likes of Raab (who is hardly some ‘Big Beast’). Also, I’m increasingly thinking that Hunt may be the one who inherits the keys to the kingdom (well, the Tory party) when May finally keels over.