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Hunt as the next PM
I think this would need the Tory party to be less rabidly brexity than it is, though. I don’t think the membership will go for someone who was a remainer in 2016. I could be wrong, but the party has made brexit its defining policy and (particularly as it isn’t going well) I think they won’t trust someone who wasn’t a true believer.
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I think this would need the Tory party to be less rabidly brexity than it is
I agree - any leadership candidate right now will be subject to a barrage of "but you're a Remainer" / "not a true believer" bollocks.
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I think this would need the Tory party to be less rabidly brexity than it is, though. I don’t think the membership will go for someone who was a remainer in 2016. I could be wrong, but the party has made brexit its defining policy and (particularly as it isn’t going well) I think they won’t trust someone who wasn’t a true believer.
There's potentially a balance there between the MP's who need the new PM to be electable, and the gerontocracy who as you say want a true believer. Honestly I don't know how it's going to shake out, but Hunt is a titan compared to the current cabinet. And a footnote compared to a proper politician, but we are where we are.
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Dammit
This is a very common approach - promote into senior positions those who a) would never get that/a similar role without you (Dorries being the most egregious example of this) and b) who cannot challenge you. Recipe for sycophantically loyal minions - without you they're nothing, so they have to keep you in power.
Canzani has now fucked Sunak's chances of the big job, so he's very much in the same boat as the rest of the mediocrities that make up the Cabinet - not one of them is viable successor, which is why we end up (I suspect) with Hunt as the next PM.