Our pre-Commons stage take was that Johnson is best placed to do so on time. As ballot papers are returned, we stick by that judgement.
His campaign was slow to start, and sometimes misfired. But he found his voice, is part of a Johnson future – and is back on the up.
From the blog of the University of Liverpool academic: his detailed breakdown of the contest.
Of course, many of the sacked ministers – Fallon, Mitchell, Shapps and a dozen others are hoping for preferment under a Boris administration.
From the blog of the University of Liverpool academic: his detailed breakdown of the contest.
A big question today for Conservative MPs is: what sort of final stage, when the contest goes to the members, do they want?
“I will look for the best way to advance the values we fought for…underpinned by an optimistic belief in the value of each individual person.”
For most in our groups, the strongest candidates were Johnson, Hunt and Javid, though Stewart had also stuck in several people’s minds.
If Brexit really must happen, then better to be frank about the impossibility of renegotiating the deal, or exiting without one.