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The Tories are going to do anything within their power to avoid a GE as they'd (based on
current polling) lose in a manner that is conceivably historically notable.This.
Remember that it was the Parliamentary Conservative Party who forced BoJo to quit, but it's not beyond belief that 100 of them might nominate him (if he puts himself forward from the beach he's currently on) only in the hope of saving their own jobs.
Charles Walker did an impassioned interview on the Beeb last night which sounded really good until you ask 'why did he wait until now to say it'? And he only talked about the damage being done to the Tory party, not the country. He as been complicit in everything his party has done in Parliament in his 17 years as a backbench MP.
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He did say that people in his party had been acting in their own interests rather than the "national interest". I probably disagree with him regarding what is in the national interest, but I suspect that many decent one-nation-style Tory MPs have suffered from boiled-frog syndrome over the last decade.
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The Tories are going to do anything within their power to avoid a GE as they'd (based on current polling) lose in a manner that is conceivably historically notable.
What we're seeing now is the manoeuvring of various factions to get their preferred PM as the result of Truss resigning today.
But, they're all going to be a disaster - so the eventual GE will likely still be a defeat, but maybe not as enormous a defeat as they'd get right now.