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I think he intimated that he was prepared to renounce his peerage.

Truly a hero of the Dunning Kruger effect.

I don't normally stick up for CCHQ, but I think their judgment that Frost is a freelancing liability isn't looking wildly wrong.

The last thing the ‘get Brexit done’ government wants is a wildcard idiot like Frost going around banging on about Brexit.

And after Gove, you can apparently add Andrea Leadsom to the list of MPs standing down.

Go Gove Gone...

I wonder if some of these decisions are not unconnected to the standard of Sunak's campaigning.

Do we really need a general election. Surely we could just have 80 by-elections in all the seats where Tory MPs are standing down. We could have a new government without the expense and hassle of a general election.

Spoonman wrote: ↑Fri May 24, 2024 7:50 pm And after Gove, you can apparently add Andrea Leadsom to the list of MPs standing down.

As a muvva, she can also get tae fuck.

Confirmed.

The old Tory saying involving a bottle of Scotch and a revolver, they now need an Uzi.

A "Portillo Moment" is now A Thing, isn't it? They are all running shit-scared of being humiliated in a grim leisure centre at 3am.

Good!

All these constituencies rushing round trying to find candidates………..”has anyone one got Nadine’s phone number?”

Is Frosty going to get the call? Campbell-Bannerman? Richard Tice? Seb Payne?

Campbell-Bannerman has been nixed.

Gove throwing in the towel is the most surprising. Yes he’s a creepy slime ball and a political zealot but is a competent man of government by all accounts who could live to fight another day.

Gove is 56. The way the campaign's going so far, he'll need a Methusaleh like performance to get into government again.

Seems Redwood is chucking it as well. He is 72, I suppose, but bugger me with a duty free Toblerone, they're dropping like flies.

Robert Peston reckons that there will be a lot more Tory MPs announcing that they are standing down over the weekend. If the figure reaches 100 it will be a serious vote of no confidence in Sunak.

satnav wrote: ↑Fri May 24, 2024 10:36 pm Robert Peston reckons that there will be a lot more Tory MPs announcing that they are standing down over the weekend. If the figure reaches 100 it will be a serious vote of no confidence in Sunak.

How do the panel think they'll find replacements at such short notice?

Ugly scenes as Gove and Leadsom announce their retirements.