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Friday, 29 July 2022
Tim Stanley on 18 July in the Daily Telegraph
'Had it not been for Brexit, the Conservatives would still be Dave Cameron’s party and we’d be knee deep into Osborne’s second term (the borders totally open, the Tower of London owned by China). This generation of [Tory leadership] contenders are the product of that era.'
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It looks like the choice between Truss and Rishi Sunak now gives Tory members the chance to make some history. Either they’ll give Britain its first Asian Prime Minister – or its first Lib Dem one.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.spectator.com.au/2022/07/liz-trusss-failed-lib-dem-bid-revealed/
Ha ha. She is awful. So are most of them. She is as bad as Theresa May. Sunak has faults, but is intelligent and a Brexiteer. And went to a good school.
ReplyDeleteI shall be voting for Liz Truss since I believe her to be demonstrably the better option for restoring our independence and sovereignty as a single United Kingdom.
DeleteMartin Howe QC, Chairman of Lawyers for Britain
That's why she has the support of Jacob Rees-Mogg, David Frost, Steve Baker and John Redwood.
And now Hannan's:
DeleteI have watched Truss at work as a minister, and marvelled at her ability to charm and cajole officials out of their Leftist prejudices. She is good at delegating, and adept at finding people who challenge Whitehall groupthink. Look at the non-executives she brought in as Trade Secretary: Dominic Johnson, the virtuoso fund manager who combines Beau Nash’s charm with Adam Smith’s opinions; Douglas Carswell, the first elected UKIP MP; Dambisa Moyo, the dazzling economist and critic of development aid.
In the interests of full disclosure, I should add that she asked me to join the Board of Trade. More to the point, she also knocked aside her critics – including some Tory MPs who should have known better – to bring in Tony Abbott, the fiercely Anglophile former PM of Australia. At the same time, in her capacity as minister for women and equalities, she made the wonderful Katharine Birbalsingh, Britain’s strictest headmistress, Chair of the Social Mobility Commission, thereby scandalising the Blob.
She has delivered in every department she has so far run. She will deliver as prime minister.
Britain is broken and hungers for reform. That’s why I’m backing Liz Truss
Rishi Sunak is far better than people think, but Ms Truss has the vision and skill set required to deliver now
DANIEL HANNAN
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/07/30/britain-broken-hungers-reform-why-backing-liz-truss/
Lord Hannan describes himself as a Whig. She comes from a Liberal family, even though her parents are or were left-wing Labour. I suspect her of being a classical liberal, not a Tory. She does not want to resile from the ECHR. She campaigned against Brexit citing free movement as a motive for remaining. She made an idiot of herself and her country talking to Sergey Lavrov: she thought Rostov on Don (not an obscure place) was in Ukraine. Mrs May would have sacked her for being useless had she won a majority in 2017.
DeleteLord Hannan makes interesting points.
DeleteOn the other hand she is Toryish on transgender.
ReplyDeleteWe should ask Tony Abbott to lead the Tory party and be PM.
ReplyDeleteIf Tony and all of the above would be part of her team... She may not be as stupid as she looks.
DeleteIt seems if we're choosing between bacon bap and bacon butty. I guess they are technically different but aren't they really the same thing.
ReplyDeleteOne brown and healthy and one white and bland?
ReplyDeleteI have enjoyed both very much but don't think any of these people are conservatives except Kemi. Probably not even she is
ReplyDelete"There was never a greater need for true conservatism than there is today"
DeleteThe 5th Marquess of Salisbury, first president of the Monday Club, January 1962
Hannan is certainly laying it on thick - but those were good appointments, right enough.
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