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9 hours ago, steviewevie said:

Free from that socialist Sunak.

Sounds like Sunak wanted to balance the books a bit whilst Boris wanted tax cuts on top of the energy handouts on top of the covid spending. Not great for Starmer, if the bond market moves any further he's going to have no wriggle room for spending if he gets in and that will then upset the Corbynistas in the party.

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56 minutes ago, lost said:

Sounds like Sunak wanted to balance the books a bit whilst Boris wanted tax cuts on top of the energy handouts on top of the covid spending. Not great for Starmer, if the bond market moves any further he's going to have no wriggle room for spending if he gets in and that will then upset the Corbynistas in the party.

maybe next election is a good one to lose.

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from the bbc, list of resignations so far:

 

Cabinet ministers

  • Rishi Sunak - chancellor
  • Sajid Javid - health secretary

Ministers

  • Will Quince - minister for children and families
  • Alex Chalk - solicitor general

Ministerial aides

  • Laura Trott - parliamentary private secretary (PPS) to the Transport secretary
  • Jonathan Gullis - PPS to the Northern Ireland secretary
  • Saqib Bhatti - PPS to the Health secretary
  • Nicola Richards - PPS to the Department for Transport
  • Virginia Crosbie - PPS at the Welsh office

Others

  • Bim Afolami - vice-chair of the Conservative Party
  • Theo Clarke - trade envoy to Kenya
  • Andrew Murrison - trade envoy to Morocco
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Some DM reporter says:

"Tory source says 1922 Committee drawing up contingency plans for leadership hustings to start as soon as Monday. Would allow time to complete run-off before recess, with Tory members voting on the final two in August. But would require the PM to be gone this week..."

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