Nearly half of Conservative members think Rishi Sunak would make better party leader than Boris Johnson – poll

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  1. More trouble;

    >Mark Harper, chair of the lockdown-sceptic Tory Covid Recovery Group, said Johnson should announce by January 26 — when most current rules expire — that he will end them and never bring them back.
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    >The former Tory chief whip told the Financial Times that Johnson could face a leadership challenge after May’s local elections unless he changes the way he operates and proves he is still an electoral asset.
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    >([Tory MP warns of revolt if Boris Johnson doesn’t axe Covid curbs](https://www.ft.com/content/b076fc81-2320-4e08-ab18-73a19871be9d))
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    >(mirror: https://archive.is/4zHoj)

  2. 49% see Sunak as a better leader than Johnson, while 16% see him as worse. 30% say he’d be about the same.

    That’s really not good if a significant portion of your membership is quite happy to have your de facto deputy in charge instead of you.

    But for the life of me I don’t know what Boris Johnson would have to do to actually lose the confidence of Tory members given that 59% of them still think he should stay.

  3. The richest MP in his own right, worth about £200 million, who’s married to the daughter of one of the richest men in India.

    What the fuck does he have, remotely clos, to any type of knowledge of the normal person?

  4. Define better. He is definitely more competent and he would be far less gaffe-prone than Johnson is. He would also be more statesmanlike on the world stage. He would not be better for the average person as PM though, he might even be worse as he would seek to do all he can to protect the super rich, seeing as he is one of them himself.

  5. But then conservative voters though Boris Johnson was the best person to lead their party, then the country, so what the fuck do they know?

  6. Sunaks wife is the richest woman in the uk..more than the queen, you don’t get that kind of money without walking over the poor…keep him away

  7. Sunak has been groomed to replace Boris. He’s a slimy fuck who had had PR distance him from his own actions when bad and to take credit when good. Sunak is typical Tory enough to return to the usual fucking over the public with a little less on the nose corruption to be more traditional.

    He’ll lose some of the most ardent UKIP types Tories absorbed but the rest will weaponise him enough to accept him as long as he continues his nasty agenda..

    Truss will only take the power from him if Sunak gets smeared enough to make the most racist part of Tory seem too important to lose.

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