He’ll be hoping to get a better reception than Liz Truss got in this room recently - where she faced a barrage of criticism from her own MPs, heavily briefed out afterwards to the media, unhappy with her budget that the chancellor has now mostly reversed.
We’ll have to wait to find out what that’s about …
Away from Downing Street for a moment, new chancellor Jeremy Hunt has just finished addressing backbench Tory MPs.
There wasn’t a big turnout of Tory MPs in the room, though one left saying they were “very happy”.
A government source said his principal message was about how the party needed to unite, and how he needs to “balance” the pressures on spending and tax.
They added it was a “good reception” with about “five or six rounds” of table banging - the traditional sign of approval in Westminster circles.
Exactly. The man who managed a whole 18 votes in the first round of Tory leader selection. The least number of MP supported him. And he is now the de facto PM with the hollowed out Truss as his fall guy to take the flack. Un-bleedin-believable.
I really do wonder how many turned down the offer before Hunt, citing “not touching you nor the job with a bargepole” as a valid reason to themselves (and hopefully some saying it to her)
Is there not 20+ good men & women left in the conservative party to become cabinet ministers .
It would seem tories have nothing left but the dregs ,buffoons, liars and cheats. What next
Not really Kazz. They don’t seem to be in charge anymore. We should ask Biden or the WEF (World Economic Forum) who will be the next PM, because they already know…
The trouble with such conspiracy theories is that they sound almost plausible until you remind yourself of the car crash that is the current government and tory party. Then you think - if this is the way the secret cabal organise the route to their PM of choice then they are really, really bad at organising stuff. And a global power elite ought to be a bit more, well, effective. Otherwise they are no threat at all. Just a bunch of old men moaning about stuff over a glass of sherry.
Its not the fault of the secret cabal Strath, the conservative party members keep getting it wrong and don’t read or understand the memo…Don’t worry though, they will keep going through PM’s until they get it right.