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Flew home from holiday in the caribbean overnight. despite being forced out after a series of scandals, his supporters claim he's ready to return to number 10. i think if borisjohnson makes the members�* ballot he would certainly win, and that's certainly the message that i've been getting. of course, he is the only one that had a mandate, that 80—seat majority at the election. he's had a mandate of being elected by the party members before as well. and of course he's proven he's a winner. the frontrunner at this stage is rishi sunak, whose allies last night said he'd secured the backing o...

His supporters claim he's ready to return to number 10. i think if borisjohnson makes the members' ballot he would certainly win, and that's certainly the message that i've been getting. of course, he is the only one that had a mandate, that 80—seat majority at the election. he's had a mandate of being elected by the party members before as well. and of course he's proven he's a winner. the frontrunner at this stage is rishi sunak whose allies last night said he'd secured the backing of 100 mp5 — the number of the former chancellor would need to formally enter the race. clearly there are o...

I think the main thing will be to cut the membership out of the decision. that can be done in a number of ways. the most obvious is for the parliamentary party to somehow get around one particular candidate, therefore negating the need for a contest out in the country, if you like. the other way of doing that is by holding a vote in parliament, there are a number of votes among mps, and then prevailing upon whoever comes second in a contest to stand down, then you would have one candidate, and a third possible way around this is for the 1922 committee to set the nomination threshold so high th...

Get around one particular candidate, therefore negating the need for a contest out in the country, if you like. the other way of doing that is by holding a vote in parliament, there are a number of votes among mps, and then prevailing upon whoever comes second in a contest to stand down, then you would have one candidate, and a third possible way around this is for the 1922 committee to set the nomination threshold so high that basically only one candidate could get through, and then again you are only left with one candidate and you don't need to do a contest out in the country with grassroot...

On a new leader? i can't imagine anyone in the party want another protracted election. i think the main thing will be to cut the membership out of the decision. that can be done in a number of ways. the most obvious is for the parliamentary party to somehow get around one particular candidate, therefore negating the need for a contest out in the country, if you like. the other way of doing that is by holding a vote in parliament, there are a number of votes among mps, and then prevailing upon whoever comes second in a contest to stand down, then you would have one candidate, and a third possib...