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Maybe rehab is doing something for him

Astonishingly, Gove does something worthwhile.

Levelling Up and Housing Secretary warns construction industry he will continue to go after those responsible for the building safety crisis  

The language used is also quite astonishing

Boris accusing the media of not getting into the detail of policies and being easily distracted LOL

Perhaps Gove sees an opening for a future leadership bid?

Perhaps the Government is also to blame for poor Building Regulations and it’s just rats turning on each other

The govt. wot fucked it in that respect is long gone I would have thought.

Like financial deregulation, it's a series of successive governments.

The most recent episodes of the BBC Grenfell Inquiry podcast show just how the Cameron administration reduced the 'regulatory burden' and caused the fire.

Truss. I have no idea what they see, apart from being anti minorities.

Those in the gammon industry support her work on new pork markets

I'd start with the creation of private building control and approved inspectors done by the 2010 govt of Cameron and Clegg.

All those fabulous tradedeals, because nobody bothers to read up about the details online.

Like the 350M a week again, everything sounds like a lot of money.

The public or course. What kind of banana republic would have them elected by a handful of the population?

Let's just - for the sake of argument - suppose that the next PM will be elected by a tiny fraction of the population mainly consisting of lunatics and cunts.

Is it going to be Sunak The Bland, with his one idea being Austerity v2 whilst looking vaguely stylish on camera, or will it be Pritti The Scourge of Immigrants or Truss the Beneficent face of Brexit?

Truss looks a bit like Mrs Thatch. She'll get it

I think she's probably best placed - and the polling of the Tory membership puts her and Frost right at the top. Slight issue in that she's a total lightweight who bends in the direction of the strongest populist wind. How she'd deal with the ERG lunatics would be interesting to watch.

Also, we'd be taken even less seriously than we are now by other leaders internationally.

All those fabulous tradedeals

The photocopied ones?

But now they are on union jack printed paper, so 1000000% better! :p

Truss doesn't seem bright to me, but she also doesn't seem to be Pure Evil.

I've no idea what she stands for though... what is her nhs/economy/healthcare/immigration/environmental stance? No idea.

She would be/will be shit. Another in the line of worst PMs ever. But probably more inept than corrupt.

Slight issue in that she's a total lightweight who bends in the direction of the strongest populist wind.

So. A female BoJo?

The Tory Party: "There can't be anyone worse at being PM than Boris"

Liz Truss: "Hold my pork"

Boris bumbles around whilst also overseeing the biggest shift of power from parliament to the executive that we've ever seen. I think it's easy to underestimate him and his hunger for power. He won't go easily, either I suspect.

I think Cromwell (and Charles II) might overshadow Boris on that one

He won't go easily, either I suspect.

He will when the money runs out. He has got 7 kids to feed and two previous marriages to pay for after all. The poor dear.

The longer Boris hangings around now the more it damages the Tory’s. But he’s going to have until early summer just because nobody is going to want to take over currently. The Tory’s are generally good at killing off leaders, there less good at replacing them. Patel and sunak will loss there coalition of racists and brexit voters in the old red wall seats. It’s not going to be easy for them.

Staedtler (on Twitter) had what I thought was an interesting analysis - around timing, really.

His perspective is that if the Tories leave Scottish Indy as a loose cannon they risk it becoming a major factor at the next GE, so better to commit to a referendum in order to park it in 2023, then call a GE for '22 in order to run on (what's left of) the party that Got Brexit Done, and then also to be the party that negotiates (potentially) the exit of Scotland from the Union.

That works if you think that the Tories view Scotts Indy as an issue that would be important to the English electorate, and/or could generate alliances amongst parties that would lead to electoral pacts.

They may of course think that saying "no" is all the strategy that they need.