\u201cI think nearly any observer is flabbergasted that two years after winning a landslide majority, he can find himself in this situation. Her challenge came from the parliamentary arithmetic and the Gordian knot of Brexit. Neither of those exist in this situation.\u201d<\/p>\n
5) Don\u2019t go abroad<\/p>\n
Prime ministers in peril can be tempted to project business-as-usual with a bit of international summitry \u2014 but this can cut valuable face-to-face time with persuadable MPs and allow plotters to plot.<\/p>\n
With a leadership contest already underway, Margaret Thatcher infamously pressed ahead with attending a Paris meeting on the future of Europe. She learned that her premiership had been dealt a major blow in the contest\u2019s first ballot while still in France.<\/p>\n
Kempsell said: \u201cThe hard political management problems that I\u2019ve seen under several prime ministers always occur when the prime minister is traveling. When they are out of the country, people behave differently \u2026 their loyalty can slip and they start having secret meetings.\u201d<\/p>\n
6) But most of all \u2026 they need a reason to back you<\/p>\n
Ultimately many of Starmer\u2019s MPs just aren\u2019t enthusiastic about his vision or personality. In the end that will be his undoing, said Barwell: \u201cYou can buy yourself time with all sorts of tricks and gimmicks, but it\u2019s not going to solve the problem. That\u2019s why I think this is ultimately going to play out with him going.\u201d<\/p>\n
And it becomes a vortex as policy is swallowed in the news agenda \u2014 and government time \u2014 by leadership speculation. \u201cThe bunker itself destroys the chance to get anything meaningful done,\u201d said Kempsell, and can leave people \u201cdisappearing into the plughole of the news cycle and just trying to survive?\u201d<\/p>\n
Timpson recalled Liz Truss, who lasted only 49 days, gathering her staff for a war room in the Pillared Room in Downing Street. \u201cFrankly, it wasn\u2019t a lack of coordination that was the problem,\u201d she said. \u201cIt was a complete lack of substance, of a future of that administration. It was on its knees.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI think nearly any observer is flabbergasted that two years after winning a landslide majority, he can find…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[14603,10922,5372,10307,11988,1514,286,533,17321,8,19,346,356,6690,16934,17322,9,6313,2290,17323,7118,9712,17324,7,36,806,9672,17325],"class_list":{"0":"post-28463","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-top-stories","8":"tag-airplanes","9":"tag-boris-johnson","10":"tag-brexit","11":"tag-buildings","12":"tag-communications","13":"tag-cost-of-living","14":"tag-elections","15":"tag-france","16":"tag-gavin-barwell","17":"tag-headlines","18":"tag-iran","19":"tag-keir-starmer","20":"tag-king-charles-iii","21":"tag-liz-truss","22":"tag-margaret-thatcher","23":"tag-michael-gove","24":"tag-news","25":"tag-parliament","26":"tag-platforms","27":"tag-rishi-sunak","28":"tag-services","29":"tag-shabana-mahmood","30":"tag-theresa-may","31":"tag-top-stories","32":"tag-war","33":"tag-war-in-ukraine","34":"tag-wes-streeting","35":"tag-westminster-insider"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@news\/116570149516865433","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}