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Originally Posted by jfman
I think the notion removing him upends anything is a creative interpretation of events.
The irony in your last sentence is he commands neither the support of his party or Parliament, when almost certainly there’s someone sitting behind him who would for an interim period.
This isn’t someone that the political winds shifted past them. This is a liar, a law-breaker, someone who meets a KGB agent following a NATO summit without the presence of officials. Starmer has every right to go for the open goal before him.
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And yet if and when Starmer manages to get a confidence vote on the agenda, the Tory party will back Boris. Expect at that point Tory backbenchers to make basically the same argument I just did. Confidence extends to his keeping the seat warm while his successor is chosen, and no further.
There is indeed an open goal in front of Starmer right now but exploiting it consists of making a lot of noise about Boris still being in the job, not seriously expecting him to go until the Tory leadership election is finished. The moment Boris is out of Downing Street Starmer has to find something else to shout about. Politically it suits him for Boris not to go early, regardless of any public pronouncements he might make.