🤔 When does a Tory leadership election now happen?
Right away looks unlikely - COVID situation is too much of a mess. Would prompt accusation of navel gazing by Tories in a pandemic.
March also is tricky. UK might be emerging from the worst of a COVID wave, but then local elections and NI elections in May are in view. Plus Art 16/Protocol needs sorting by then.
Summer is organisationally easiest, not least as better weather makes getting around lockdowns easier. But what’s the polling for the Tories going to be by then?
Waiting longer still might then make sense - because Johnson will have seen the party through the worst of it all. But then has the chance passed to oust him?
It’s a complex one. When do Johnson’s rivals strike?
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It’s a complex one. When do Johnson’s rivals strike?
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