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Originally Posted by Chris
One is less awful than the other, and it’s a choice of one or the other. On that basis alone, Sunak is the one.
There simply isn’t going to be a general election unless the parliamentary conservatives become unmanageable. The polls guarantee a wipeout. The only sensible course of action if you’re a Tory is to choose the most stabilising leader on offer and hope that something comes up by 2024 that makes that wipeout less likely. That more than 70 Tory MPs don’t seem able to see that is sobering but there are encouraging signs this evening that Sunak and BoJo are going to sew it up so no contest is required.
If Sunak has any sense he’ll offer Boris the foreign office and encourage him to spend as much time as possible in Kyiv.
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My position is that, Tory MPs may view Sunak as the least worst. I’m not so sure that those who elected Boris in the first instance will.
I would prefer neither. I think a vote for either is a backward move. My initial ire was the proposition that Sunak was morally superior than Johnson, and that’s simply not the case.
I don’t know where they go, preferably without either Johnson or Sunak. But if I was offered only Sunak and Johnson…………it would be Johnson.