This is how it works, and I have absolutely no problem with it. However, a new PM should respect the manifesto that got the party elected. If they want to rip it up for their "bold new vision" they should take it to the public in a GE.
I think Boris will do whatever makes him the most money. If it's doing op-ed pieces slagging off the leadership he'll do that. I think it's more likely he'll have a speaking tour lined up. He was getting 100K + a time at some places before running for PM.
The good news is that there is not a chance of either of those things happening given the hardships this country will face in the next 2 years.
She even referred to 2024 in the speech. She has no inclination to go to the polls.
First one on Wednesday. Get the popcorn in.
Thats absolutely right Russians for example.
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Yes but if you don't like it but understand it, you wouldn't call for a GE.
Why? This isn't someone literally saying I demand an election; it's what they'd like to be the case.
Dead woman walking. She's a conveniant idiot, before the next leadership challenge and subsequent pre-GE Tory "reboot". Where the same tired and failed tory front benchers, will tell us how they are the only people capable of resolving the issues that Blair created 20 years earlier, and how they are the only people that can be trusted with the economy, despite dismantling it, and that they are the party of the working person, despite removing the working classes ability to survive on their salary for about 40% of people.
When he was Mayor of London, he had a sideline writing columns for the Telegraph for which he received £250k a year, of which he described in a TV interview as "chicken feed".
