BoJo banished - Liz Truss down. Is Rishi next for the toaster? **threadbans in OP**

I don't think either party is guaranteed to keep their MPs from the Summer. The people that voted in the first round will be counted on as really believing that Sunak and Mordaunt should be PM. Thats 88 and 67.

For the record in the 5th round Truss got 113 MPs. In the first she had 50.

Granting that the first-past-the-post electoral system is an abomination -it is absurd in my view that members would have a decisive say -in fact any say , in choosing a PM. They have had their input together with the whole electorate in the general election. Representative democracy means that the elected MPs represent the generality of those who wish a particular party grouping to exercise power.

The MPs interact with the candidates up close in a parliamentary and administrative setting. No one is better placed to assess the calibre of potential leaders than the MPs. Members have far too narrow a focus to make an intelligent choice . Their choice of a hollow nonentity like the hapless Truss clearly shows this. Should not be allowed to happen again.

Anyone even mentioning the possibility of Johnson returning must be borderline moronic.

I don't get it, the representatives picked sunak, the non representative collection of 300k members picked truss. Who could have ever imagined that this non democratic process would fall apart?! What a shocker!

She basically just lied and won and now they will implement his policy. It's absolutely ridiculous, he must have been getting above his station. Needed taking down a peg.

When is Rory stewart coming back to find the soul of the party?

Boris is flying back from a Carribbean holiday to retake No 10.

That line pretty much sums up Johnsons career and British politics at the moment.

I'd rather have the Candyman over.

I can't wait to see Charlie and Bojo shaking hands! It should be a life lesson to any Frank Grimes out there, lifes a game and there are no rules! 😂

Boris has his staunch supporters both within Westminster and on the streets, that is easy to understand and if not agreeable, regrettably, it must be accepted.

However, what I don't understand is how could his return justified?

He was forced to resigned, unwillingly, for several serious reasons. With Boris being Boris those issues must have been insurmountable to convince him to resign. So how now are those issues brushed underneath the carpet to pave the way for his return?

Desperately clinging to power, refusing to hold a GE to let the public decide, having yet another leadership contest to find another unelected PM, and ending up that person being Boris Johnson less than two months after he was forced out in disgrace is probably about the most Tory thing that could happen right now. It's going to happen isn't it.

Any normal voting system would mean he had no chance - but the tory system of giving all the power to the very right wing, cigar puffing bunch on old men who think that Indian boys should be polishing the shoes of bankers and stockbrokers, means Johnston very possibly will return