Sunak has destroyed the economy. We know that. His staff did their best to destroy the Freeports. And they leak all the time.
Matt M
2 years ago
As pointed out by Will Lloyd some time ago, Rishi Sunak was a Eurosceptic at age 16 and wrote an article criticising Tony Blair’s desire to bring us into the Eurozone for his school magazine.
That’s good enough for me 🙂
Geoffrey Wilson
2 years ago
Good points, successfully arguing that ministerial speech restrictions are a real problem for our future leadership discussions, and for me is a problem affecting the quality of public political debate. I would be interested in the writer’s ideas for solving this problem – since of course abolishing collective cabinet responsibility would also have major problems.
Sharon Overy
2 years ago
“We”, of course, don’t get a say, so it’s irrelevant whether we know anything about prospective candidates.
The decision is for the Tory Party – it’s their party leader who’s being chosen, after all. Our vote comes at election-time.
Nicky Samengo-Turner
2 years ago
Sunak has a financial brain, intellect, does not need the money, can strengthen our ties with India… and is not intra M25 ” toylitte”… that in itself is enough
Scott S
2 years ago
I dont see the relevance of this piece. We won’t get a say until there is an election. Johnson will be gone after (or before??) the May locals, unless he miraculously turns it around. If he does go Tory MPs will select the next leader, not the electorate. Once in place they will have ample chance to put forward their vision, not least in the next Tory manifesto.
John Tyler
2 years ago
Oh, come on! We’ve all seen Yes Prime Minister. We know who really runs the country. (:
Last edited 2 years ago by John Tyler
Susan Bennett
2 years ago
Sunak is no longer the front runner. I think Conservative Home polled members and found Ben Wallace, the Defence Minister, is now in poll position. We know our politicians by their actions, worth more than empty promises in speeches. Sunal raised taxes, while Wallace did a credible job of evacuating Kabul while Boris prioritised animals and standing up to Russia while Europe capitulated.
Jon Hawksley
2 years ago
One aspect of No 10 control. I also think we need to reduce the PM’s patronage by paying all MPs either a part time salary of a full time salary with no uplift for being an officer of the crown. There is a point at which a majority of the cabinet should able to take a stand against a PM without being held back by a loss of earnings.
Andrea X
2 years ago
This is collective responsibility for you. Not sure that doing away with it would improve things.
No it isn’t. Collective cabinet responsibility implies that the cabinet collectively meets to debate and make major policy decisions together as equals. That hardly ever happens anymore. Fifty years ago, it happened a lot more. But that didn’t prevent senior cabinet ministers such as Roy Jenkins, Anthony Crosland, Barbara Castle, Denis Healey, Willie Whitelaw, Reggie Maudling, and Tony Benn from having a much higher public profile and being far more outspoken than their muzzled counterparts of today.
Sunak has destroyed the economy. We know that. His staff did their best to destroy the Freeports. And they leak all the time.
As pointed out by Will Lloyd some time ago, Rishi Sunak was a Eurosceptic at age 16 and wrote an article criticising Tony Blair’s desire to bring us into the Eurozone for his school magazine.
That’s good enough for me 🙂
Good points, successfully arguing that ministerial speech restrictions are a real problem for our future leadership discussions, and for me is a problem affecting the quality of public political debate. I would be interested in the writer’s ideas for solving this problem – since of course abolishing collective cabinet responsibility would also have major problems.
“We”, of course, don’t get a say, so it’s irrelevant whether we know anything about prospective candidates.
The decision is for the Tory Party – it’s their party leader who’s being chosen, after all. Our vote comes at election-time.
Sunak has a financial brain, intellect, does not need the money, can strengthen our ties with India… and is not intra M25 ” toylitte”… that in itself is enough
I dont see the relevance of this piece. We won’t get a say until there is an election. Johnson will be gone after (or before??) the May locals, unless he miraculously turns it around. If he does go Tory MPs will select the next leader, not the electorate. Once in place they will have ample chance to put forward their vision, not least in the next Tory manifesto.
Oh, come on! We’ve all seen Yes Prime Minister. We know who really runs the country. (:
Sunak is no longer the front runner. I think Conservative Home polled members and found Ben Wallace, the Defence Minister, is now in poll position. We know our politicians by their actions, worth more than empty promises in speeches. Sunal raised taxes, while Wallace did a credible job of evacuating Kabul while Boris prioritised animals and standing up to Russia while Europe capitulated.
One aspect of No 10 control. I also think we need to reduce the PM’s patronage by paying all MPs either a part time salary of a full time salary with no uplift for being an officer of the crown. There is a point at which a majority of the cabinet should able to take a stand against a PM without being held back by a loss of earnings.
This is collective responsibility for you. Not sure that doing away with it would improve things.
No it isn’t. Collective cabinet responsibility implies that the cabinet collectively meets to debate and make major policy decisions together as equals. That hardly ever happens anymore. Fifty years ago, it happened a lot more. But that didn’t prevent senior cabinet ministers such as Roy Jenkins, Anthony Crosland, Barbara Castle, Denis Healey, Willie Whitelaw, Reggie Maudling, and Tony Benn from having a much higher public profile and being far more outspoken than their muzzled counterparts of today.