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thereisonlyoneno7 said:
Said it before - if it goes to the members, there is no way they will vote a man of Indian descent as the leader of the party. Sad thing to think and say in 2022, but also sadly true. I think they forget he was born here (literally here in Southampton General).
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13% of members don’t have email, so it tells you what we’re dealing with here. Ancient, red trouser wearing oddities that would hate an Indian descended PM, as you say, as they’ll think it’s still part of the Empire…
 
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ChilcoSaint said:
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If it goes to the membership to decide between Johnson (please don’t call him Boris) and Sunak, the lying greased piglet will walk it, and the Tory Party will implode within weeks. Maybe even days.
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Interesting to learn that Southampton isn’t British, as opposed to… New York?

(I know that this isn’t what that orc was getting at, but still)
 
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tomw24 said:
Yes, Boris isn't one to disappear into the background quietly.
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Wonder if Truss has agreed to make him Lord Pfeffel of New Amsterdam in her ‘Resignation “honours”’ and he secretly couldn’t give a **** about being PM anymore.

Or he got them to agree to drop the investigation into him in return for dropping out.

Far more likely he simply didn’t have the support and they were blowing hot air all this time, but I don’t take anything at face value in our politics anymore.
 
I wouldn't be shocked if the situation is something along the lines of him having the support of 100 MPs but also having been told by a significant number of MPs that they'd resign the Conservative whip if he became leader. He realised that, combined with the ongoing investigation into him, would hamstring any government he led.

I wouldn't be shocked if there was another comeback, possibly after the next election. He's done it before - backed out of the 2016 leadership contest but was in Downing Street 3 years later.
 
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Here’s the list according to the ConservativeHome blog:
https://conservativehome.com/2022/1...a-close-second-with-mordaunt-a-distant-third/

Boris Johnson (59) (announced he wasn’t running 22/10)

  • Paul Bristow (20/10) (backed Shapps, then Truss)
  • James Duddridge (20/10) (backed Truss)
  • Nadine Dorries (20/10) (backed Truss)
  • Brendan Clarke-Smith (20/10) (backed Patel, then Truss)
  • Michael Fabricant (20/10) (backed Truss)
  • Stephen McPartland (20/10) (backed Truss)
  • Marco Longhi (20/10) (backed Badenoch, then Truss)
  • Andrea Jenkyns (20/10) (backed Patel, then Truss)
  • Andrew Stephenson (20/10)
  • Lia Nici (20/10) (backed Truss)
  • Christopher Chope (20/10) (backed Patel, then Truss)
  • Shaun Bailey (20/10) (backed Truss)
  • David Morris (20/10) (backed Hunt)
  • Karl McCartney (20/10)
  • Amanda Milling (20/10) (backed Truss)
  • Peter Bone (20/10) (backed Truss)
  • Chris Clarkson (20/10) (backed Sunak)
  • Jane Hunt (20/10)
  • Tom Pursglove (20/10) (backed Patel, then Truss)
  • James Grundy (21/10) (backed Sunak)
  • Holly Mumby-Croft (21/10)
  • Trudy Harrison (21/10) (backed Mordaunt, then Truss)
  • Scott Benton (21/10) (backed Patel, then Truss)
  • Mark Eastwood (21/10) (backed Truss)
  • Jill Mortimer (21/10) (backed Mordaunt)
  • Kelly Tolhurst (21/10)
  • Richard Drax (21/10) (backed Braverman, then Truss)
  • Phillip Hollobone (21/10) (backed Braverman)
  • Shailesh Vara (21/10) (backed Sunak)
  • Maria Caulfield (21/10) (backed Sunak)
  • Sir Edward Leigh (21/10) (backed Truss)
  • Nigel Adams (21/10)
  • Jacob Rees-Mogg (21/10) (backed Truss)
  • Ian Levy (21/10) (backed Patel, then Truss)
  • Henry Smith (21/10) (backed Truss)
  • Tom Pursglove (21/10) (backed Truss)
  • Mark Pritchard (21/10) (backed Truss)
  • Jane Stevenson (21/10)
  • Gareth Johnson (21/10) (backed Truss)
  • Ben Wallace (21/10) (backed Truss)
  • Leo Docherty (21/10) (backed Badenoch, then Truss)
  • Caroline Johnson (21/10) (backed Badenoch, then Truss)
  • Simon Clarke (21/10) (backed Truss)
  • Bob Stewart (21/10) (backed Mordaunt, then Sunak)
  • Greg Smith (21/10) (backed Braverman, then Truss)
  • Alok Sharma (21/10)
  • Antony Higginbotham (21/10) (backed Truss)
  • John Whittingdale (21/10) (backed Truss)
  • Anne-Marie Trevelyan (21/10) (backed Truss)
  • David Morris (21/10) (backed Hunt)
  • Chris Heaton-Harris (21/10)
  • Bill Cash (21/10) (backed Truss)
  • Ben Everitt (22/10) (backed Zahawi)
  • Priti Patel (22/10) (considered running herself)
  • Lee Anderson (22/10) (backed Badenoch, then Truss)
  • Ben Bradley (22/10) (backed Badenoch)
  • Sarah Atherton (22/10) (backed Mordaunt, then Truss)
  • Nadhim Zahawi (22/10) (backed himself, then Truss)
  • James Cleverly (22/10) (backed Truss)
 
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