Conservative Party (UK) leadership election, 2016

[Maxwell]

Stephen "Family Values" Crabb caught sexting

lol

[Cassius]

Unless piggygate counts, of course.

Was fake in my opinion- Ashcroft used it to sell his book

So why wasn't there any slander lawsuit?

anyway it seems the Tory are aiming for the "nasty party" status again

I find it ironic that the supposed favourite for the Conservative leadership is the very same woman who popularised that phrase and gave the party's opponents a catchy epithet to lob at it.

[RogueBeaver]

Whoa: Leadsom will drop out.

[Hnv1]

So May is the leader or Gove vs May gos to the membership now

[Phony Moderate]

So May is the leader or Gove vs May gos to the membership now

May will likely...well, should, become PM within days given the current circumstances, no matter how pissed off dozen of Tory MPs are.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Whoa: Leadsom will drop out.

Eeeeeeh?

[RogueBeaver]

May is now leader.

[Hnv1]

May is now leader.

how fast before she will be going to the queen now?

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

So May is the leader or Gove vs May gos to the membership now

May will likely...well, should, become PM within days given the current circumstances, no matter how pissed off dozen of Tory MPs are.

Yeah. You can't have this person just "there" waiting for Cameron to leave.

[ChrisDR68]

Probably a good thing in the present circumstances.

A new PM May with a new cabinet this speedily should calm the markets quite a bit

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Our long national mental breakdown continues then. lmao.

[Antonio the Sixth]

This is probably good news for the UK, but it's basically gaming the system to prevent the members from having any choice in the leadership selection. Pretty low.

[Simfan34]

Its ridiculous that May can win 60%+ of MPs and still potentially lose to Leadsom. I don't think any candidate has ever won a majority of MPs in prior Tory leadership elections under this format; it's absurd to think that both Government and Opposition could end up with leaders who have been roundly rejected by their parliamentary parties. Leadsom should drop out, and immense pressure should be placed upon her to do so until she does (although May would best avoid getting directly involved). There should at least be a push to have a "consultative" final round.

[Phony Moderate]

May to become PM on Wednesday evening, with that day's PMQs being Cameron's curtain fall.

https://twitter.com/BBCNormanS/status/752516859174461440

https://twitter.com/BBCNormanS/status/752516774638325760

[Filuwaúrdjan]

And Parliament breaks up for the Summer a week later.

[Slow Learner]

thank god

[ChrisDR68]

Theresa May speech this morning was remarkably very much similar to Ed Miliband's speech, her speech is a return to pre-thatcher tory party, reminds me so much of Ted Heath, "More concentrated on government rather than market.

Theresa May: A Better Britain
Ted Heath: A better Tomorrow

Ted heath was the last decent tory prime minister and leader.

I have to say her speech got me blushing but got me worried at the same time, it's a direct target to voters the tories lost in 1992 and 1997 to labour they haven't recovered yet.

God don't say that.

Heath was an awful prime minister and took this country into the European federalist's club in the first place remember.

If you look at his less than 4 years as PM almost nothing he did was successful and the poisoning of industrial relations started on his watch.

[Phony Moderate]

Theresa May speech this morning was remarkably very much similar to Ed Miliband's speech, her speech is a return to pre-thatcher tory party, reminds me so much of Ted Heath, "More concentrated on government rather than market.

Theresa May: A Better Britain
Ted Heath: A better Tomorrow

Ted heath was the last decent tory prime minister and leader.

I have to say her speech got me blushing but got me worried at the same time, it's a direct target to voters the tories lost in 1992 and 1997 to labour they haven't recovered yet.

God don't say that.

Heath was an awful prime minister and took this country into the European federalist's club in the first place remember.

If you look at his less than 4 years as PM almost nothing he did was successful and the poisoning of industrial relations started on his watch.

Yeah, I thought Macmillan was the post-war go-to "I'm Labour but he was a decent PM" Tory PM?

[afleitch]

Theresa May speech this morning was remarkably very much similar to Ed Miliband's speech, her speech is a return to pre-thatcher tory party, reminds me so much of Ted Heath, "More concentrated on government rather than market.

Theresa May: A Better Britain
Ted Heath: A better Tomorrow

Ted heath was the last decent tory prime minister and leader.

I have to say her speech got me blushing but got me worried at the same time, it's a direct target to voters the tories lost in 1992 and 1997 to labour they haven't recovered yet.

God don't say that.

Heath was an awful prime minister and took this country into the European federalist's club in the first place remember.

If you look at his less than 4 years as PM almost nothing he did was successful and the poisoning of industrial relations started on his watch.

Yeah, I thought Macmillan was the post-war go-to "I'm Labour but he was a decent PM" Tory PM?

The first rule of Labour tribalism is that you're not allowed to think of any Tory PM as decent Tories are the enemy even when the SNP are breathing down your neck and when they've pulled out your still beating heart it's because they have to be Tories deep down, because everything that's not Labour is Tory.

Tories can pick (and 'vote for') favourite Labour PM's but never the other way around.

[Blair]

Funnily enough unlike most US politics 'fans' (or whatever the hell we are) people in the UK tend to have awful knowledge (me included) of prime Ministers who came before Thatcher

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

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Replace '84' with '40', 'leadership election' with 'general election', and 'last Thursday' with 'two weeks ago'...

Oh, and '25%' with '20%'.

[Phony Moderate]

First May cabinet announcement: the Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office will remain in his job.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-36772515

[Ronnie]

Will May conduct a PM Qs before the summer break?

[Gary J]

Will May conduct a PM Qs before the summer break?

Looking at the Parliament web site, the House of Commons is currently due to adjourn on Thursday 21st July, so a PMQ session is due to take place on Wednesday 20th July.

[Phony Moderate]

Wonder if Cameron will put in a "I'm enjoying this!" display at PMQs today, a la Thatcher.