| Topic: | Should We All Be Praying for Dominic Raab To Be Our Next Prime Minister? | |
| Posted by: | Gordon Southwell | |
| Date/Time: | 24/05/19 11:21:00 |
So it is the end of May and now the bun fight starts to be the next Tory leader. My personal preference among all the candidates so far is Rory Stewart as he can grasp detail and complex issues and has been a competent Minister. This can't be said for many other of the names being put in the hat. Failing him, Sajid Javid would be an interesting choice and he would probably be up to the job. The big issue though is how to prevent Boris Johnson winning. He is clearly the favourite among the Tory associations despite the overwhelming evidence that he would be an appalling Prime Minister. They clearly are reckoning that his name recognition would be the best way to block a Jeremy Corbyn election victory but that is a high price to pay. The hope would be that the MPs recognise how bad for the country Johnson would be as PM and refuse to get on his bandwagon. That would mean the two candidates to be put forward would be a hard Brexit one and a soft Brexit one. If Raab is positioned as the no compromise candidate this might take away MP votes from Johnson. The hard Brexit candidate would win the vote of the membership but as long as he is not Boris I think I could live with that. The new leader would then have to deal with the same parliamentary mathematics that stymied Theresa May and it is hard to see how a reduced willingness to compromise is going to lead to a majority in the House for whatever way forward is being proposed. |