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Sep 6 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
🚨 Therese Coffey is appointed Health & Social Care Secretary and deputy PM - No 10 confirms
Kwasi Kwarteng is confirmed as Chancellor of the Exchequer
James Cleverly confirmed as Foreign Secretary
Suella Braverman confirmed as Home Secretary
Wendy Morton appointed Chief Whip
Brandon Lewis as Justice Secretary
Nadhim Zahawi as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
Penny Mordaunt as Commons leader
Lord True as Lords leader
Jake Berry as minister w/o portfolio (Tory party chair)

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Sep 6
Boris Johnson not going quietly.

“This is it folks… I’ll soon be passing on the baton in what has unexpectedly become a relay race. They changed the rules half way through, but never mind that now.”

(pic @mikeysmith)
Boris Johnson claims he will take a low profile when out of office… 🚀

“I am like one of those booster rockets that has fulfilled its function. I’ll now be gently reentering the atmosphere and splashing down invisibly in some remote corner of the Pacific”.
Listing what he regards as his greatest achievements in office - Brexit, vaccines and supporting Ukraine - he adds on cost of living:

“We have that economic strength to give people the cash they need to get through this energy crisis that has been caused by Putin's vicious war”
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Sep 5
🚨BREAKING: Liz Truss will become Britain’s next prime minister after winning a resounding victory over Rishi Sunak in the Tory leadership contest.
Liz Truss takes 81,326 votes to Rishi Sunak’s 60,399, on a Tory turnout on 82.6%
Liz Truss says she “campaigned as a Conservative and will govern as a Conservative” and will deliver on promises made to the British people at the 2019 general election.
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Aug 31
Slightly awks moment when Michael Gove thanks Boris Johnson, who just seven weeks ago he told to resign as prime minister, for his achievements…
Gove says the Tories cannot let Keir Starmer anywhere near power.

“The Corbyn-backing, Brexit-blocking, tax-raising, bandwagon-jumping apology for a leader should never be anywhere near Downing Street”.
Gove says he’s backing Rishi Sunak as he has courage, compassion and conviction.

Courage - backing Brexit even when Tory leadership didn’t
Compassion - implementing furlough scheme during pandemic
Conviction - tackling inflation before cutting taxes.
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Jul 27
BREAKING: Shadow transport minister Sam Tarry sacked after appearing on picket line during rail strike.
Labour claims he hasn't been sacked b/c he appeared on picket line (as others have done) but because he went on telly and made up party policy on the hoof.
Labour: "This isn’t about appearing on a picket line. Members of the frontbench sign up to collective responsibility. That includes media appearances being approved and speaking to agreed frontbench positions".
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Jul 20
BREAKING: It’s Rishi Sunak vs Liz Truss in final run-off to be Tory leader - and next Prime Minister.

Penny Mordaunt eliminated after getting 105 votes to Sunak’s 137 and Truss’s 113.
Despite all this ‘Labour fears Mordaunt’ stuff b/c she is warm & more liberal than rivals, nobody had any idea what she’d actually do in office. She was also a relative unknown. Blank canvases can work, or not.
Sunak regarded as fairly competent in polling but tax rises/wealth a problem for him & give Labour good attack lines.

I’m told that nothing they’ve ever tested has gone down as well as "he put your taxes up while lowering his".
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Jul 19
It’s not unusual to strip an MP of the whip if they don’t support their own Govt in a confidence vote. But worth noting Tobias Ellwood was one of first Tories to call for Boris Johnson to go.
Hearing Tobias Ellwood wasn't only Tory MP who missed vote because he was away on foreign trip - yet appears to be only one sanctioned.

If you also consider speed at which whips responded cf during Chris Pincher scandal, hard to escape impression move motivated by vengeance.
Key point is that Ellwood (who is likely to have whip reinstated by next Tory leader) loses his vote in leadership contest. He had been backing Penny Mordaunt, and in a race in which every vote counts...

mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…
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