Nominations close, 17.00, Monday June 10th. First ballot on Thursday 13th June, from 10am to 12pm.
We see no reason why the bottom three, say, shouldn’t fall out each time – rather than just the one, as previously.
The present election will turn on whether MPs and activists put national popularity before ideological soundness.
The Farnham Herald reports that the Foreign Secretary “announced his candidature to a packed audience at his ‘political update’ talk at the festival at 11am
It is not the resignation which Tory backbenchers were keenest to see, but it makes the end of May’s prime ministership even more certain.
The 1922 Committee Executive has already pointed her towards the exit door. It should now take her gently by the arm, and steer her through it as soon as possible.
The timetable for her departure as Conservative leader will be “agreed” after the Second Reading of the Withdrawal Agreement Bill.
This morning, the end of her unhappy journey finally seems to be looming into view, as it is briefed that there will be a June vote on the Withdrawal Agreement.
Will they now seek to appease turbulent voters by rushing her-deal-plus-the-Customs-Union through the Commons?
Plus: Creepy Biden, useless TIGs, spineless Tory MPs…and why I’d favour Scottish independence were I fully Scottish.
The 1922 Committee’s Executive ought to raise the threshold for being nominated to 12 MPs and see more than one candidate eliminated in each round.