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The Tory party - never met a back they didn't try and stab.
What's unclear is where these stories are coming from - pro-Mordaunt Tories who are really that stupid or anti-Mordaunt Conservatives trying to queer her pitch.
Either way, let them go at it each - the only upside of a sack full of rats is you end up with less rats (and a grim sack).
They stab each other in the back, sure, but one thing they do manage to do is band together and vote to deny children school meals at Christmas during a once in a lifetime pandemic. Thats... something.
Unity through inhumanity.
plotting to replace him with Penny Mordaunt
So we had:
And now they want to give us 3rd place from a vote of only 172,000 people???
The Tories really are a party of losers.
It’s the Tory party’s itself that has run out of public goodwill, not just the current leadership, but these scheming MPs don’t seem to grasp this.
Installing yet another unelected PM will likely only worsen that situation too.
Mordaunt and others may well be putting out feelers for the leadership, but that’s more likely to be preparing for the post-election resignation of Sunak rather than wanting a challenge now.
From a tory perspective. Is it bonkers though. It ain't gonna help them win.
But given how sunak became PM. After losing to a lettuce brained nutcase.
At least a challenge would leave the tory party entering the election. With MP candidates who feel their leader is a valid representation of the party.
Not being a tory. It has to be hard to gain support for such a divided party atm.
Perhaps they could all fight to the death?
Thunderdome!
Penny Mordaunt is quite handy with a sword.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Senior Tories attempted to rally behind an increasingly beleaguered Rishi Sunak on Saturday night amid claims that some Conservative MPs are plotting to replace him with Penny Mordaunt before the next general election.
Former cabinet ministers Jacob Rees-Mogg and David Davis went public to denounce the idea as “mad” and “bonkers”, as did senior backbenchers, including former vice-chair of the 1922 Committee Sir Charles Walker.
Mordaunt made no public comment about the claims but her supporters said she was not party to, or aware of, any such plot, and that she believed the stories were an attempt by her detractors on the right to damage any potential challenge she may make in future, after a Tory election defeat.
Another senior Tory said: “Perhaps the only thing more ridiculous is the idea that everyone would magically accept Saint Penny, despite her very obvious limitations and frankly bizarre views on gender issues.”
The fact, however, that such rumours are surfacing reflects an increasingly febrile atmosphere within the party, and a growing sense of desperation about the prospect of impending electoral disaster after 14 years in power.
In an interview with the Observer, Ed Davey, the Liberal Democrat leader, said before his party’s spring conference this weekend that it was shaping up to be a “once in a generation election” where the Conservatives would be unable to patch things up.
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