🧵NEW shows the scale of challenges facing Sunak in coming months...
Challenge 1: A deeply pessimistic public
❌69% say the country is heading in the wrong direction - the highest since 2019 election
👍Only 9% say things are heading in the right direction
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1/2 you used my name and image for a matter that doesn't concern me. You have not verified your information and this is causing personal harm to me and my family.
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Kemi Badenoch isn't the only one who's used parliamentary privilege to get away with chatting rubbish. We challenged BEIS to back up Jacob Rees-Mogg's claims in the House about fracking protesters... and they couldn't
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Number 10 confirms Sunak has demoted his climate minister - the role will no longer attend cabinet.
Great timing 👇
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So the King was forbidden to go, now the PM can’t even be arsed. This is the summit we hosted *checks notes* one year ago to assert ‘global leadership’ on the climate crisis. Beneath contempt.
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Yanis Varoufakis destroys neoliberal austerity economics in 30 seconds
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📊BREAKING: Sunak *leads* Starmer in Best PM poll.
🔵 Rishi Sunak: 39% (+6)
🔴 Keir Starmer: 38% (-4)
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⚪️ Don't know: 23% (-2)
Via , 25-26 Oct (+/- since 4 Sep)
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📞"All we are saying is, be gay and proud at the World Cup. But don't be too gay."
This Foreign Office minister advises LGBTQ+ England fans to "try to halve their overall gayness" while abroad, or better still, take a three week sexuality holiday.
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- Blatantly avoiding answering literally every single question
- Immediately changing the subject to talk about entirely unrelated things
- Making bizarre ad hominem attacks and referring back to Jeremy Corbyn
It’s absolutely no different to Boris Johnson or Liz Truss.
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Well Rishi Sunak is absolutely terrible at PMQs.
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Self-described 'moderates' describing the rise of Rishi Sunak as 'the return of the grown-ups' underlines, as ever, that 'centrism' treats politics as a vibe, rather than being focused on substance.
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BREAKING: Suella Braverman returns as Home Secretary six days after being sacked for a security breach
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I'm old enough to remember Suella Braverman's principled resignation for having breached the ministerial code less than a week ago.
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Rishi Sunak's speaking style makes Liz Truss look relaxed and fluid.
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Did Rishi Sunak genuinely just claim that Liz Truss led the country “with dignity and grace”?
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The richest man ever to sit as an MP will this afternoon be declared prime minister without a vote of any description. That's capitalist democracy for you.
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🔵Lost the Tory leadership election less than two months ago
🔵Didn't give a single interview
🔵Didn't detail a single policy
🔵Walked into the job unopposed
Rishi Sunak is Prime Minister by default, and the concept of British democracy is an absolute joke
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Rishi Sunak becomes Prime Minister without winning a general election and after losing a leadership race less than 2 months ago.
The media now decides who runs the U.K, not the electorate. We need a general election otherwise we don’t deserve to be called a democracy.
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Well this is awkward. Nadhim Zahawi article backing Boris Johnson is published at 9pm - 2 mins after he put out a statement saying he was pulling out of the race.
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So Boris Johnson was lying about having 100 MPs backing him.
What a massive surprise.
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The Tories have a majority of 67.
If 34 of them refused to support the new leader, the Tories would not be able to command a majority and form a government - and it would trigger a General Election.
If Boris Johnson becomes leader again, this is a very, very real possibility.
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Boris Johnson claims he now has 100 Tory MPs backing him for the leadership.
Imo it’s yet more bullshit from the country’s most famous bullshitter.
But if it is true - LMFAO! Because the Conservative Party will end up destroying itself, and I for one will savour every moment!
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41 Tory MPs have backed Boris Johnson for the Tory leadership.
26 of them also backed Liz Truss for the leadership.
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Let’s play leadership scenarios. Sunak gets on the ballot with most support, around 140. Johnson and Mordaunt get over 100. In a vote Mordaunt is eliminated. In the indicative run off Sunak wins 230:140. The members then choose Johnson. And the Truss fiasco repeats by Christmas.
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Boris Johnson was absent for every single House of Commons vote of Liz Truss’s premiership.
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It is a staggering fact that this government refuses to let unions use online ballots and yet the next PM may well be chosen by an online ballot of Tory members. That is total hypocrisy
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New - I'm told by senior Conservatives that there are MPs talking about triggering by-elections if Boris Johnson is serious about standing to be leader again. I've heard from MPs tempted to, and gathering evidence of defections and resignations in the event of his return.
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You’ve got some stiff competition, but we just know you can become the worst Prime Minister ever.
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. omg just heard there’s a leadership election nxt week????? u shud run babe youd be perfect!!! 💝💫💥
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The debacle of Liz Truss’ short-lived premiership is a symptom of a broken economic system and a trashed democracy.
We will continue to lurch from crisis to crisis — and ordinary people will pay the price — until we finally build a society for the many, not the few.
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The Conservative Party imposed one of the worst Prime Ministers the country has ever seen on the country without a General Election.
And now, they want a chance to do it all again.
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We can’t go on like this.
#GeneralElectionNow
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Prediction:
- Rishi Sunak will become Tory leader.
- He’ll come under huge pressure to call a General Election
- He’ll announce a General Election to be held next summer - a move which placates the public and gives him 6 months or so to try and rebuild terrible Tory polling
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General election now.
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🟢 Lettuce GAIN from Con
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Wednesday 19th October 2022:
Liz Truss: “I’m a fighter, not a quitter.”
Thursday 20th October 2022:
Liz Truss quits.
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Tory leadership election to be completed within ONE WEEK!
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BREAKING: Liz Truss is resigning as Prime Minister.
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