"when You Stand For Leader Of A Party, You Are Asked Some Difficult Questions"

[sp1814]

According to Michael Gove.

Could it be that there's more to this BoJo story than we the public know?

Did the Tories get annoyed that Labour were getting all the headlines tearing themselves to pieces?

[youngmafbog]

//The new PM has a choice of going with Brexit and being the man who makes this country into an economical basket case //

Sorry but that is tripe.

Mickey for once i pretty much agree with you, it is entertaining too although still surpassed by the antics of labour!

[naomi24]

//Boris has beggered it up big time. //

No he hasn't - he's got what he wanted. As things stand now he didn't want the job. Had the vote gone the other way he'd have gone for it at some time, but since Boris isn't a genuine 'Brexiter', being Prime Minister in current circumstances isn't something he'd crave. He's been let off the hook. Just as well, in my opinion. I never thought him a suitable candidate.

[mikey4444]

Less than 12 hours before plunging the dagger into Boris's back, Gove had his arms around him at a public event !

As far as I am concerned, Gove has shown his extreme duplicity and I wouldn't trust him an inch from now on. He has behaved like an overgrown schoolboy.

Unless matters change dramatically again in the next few hours and days, Mrs May will be the next Tory Leader, and our second lady PM.

She has behaved with a calm dignity through all of this, and good luck to her.

[naomi24]

There are a couple of ways of looking at this. Either Mr Gove realises that, despite the allegiance to the ‘Leave’ camp that Boris has portrayed over recent weeks, Boris’s heart wouldn’t be in the task that lies ahead, so in that respect Gove has been courageous in doing what is morally right for the country - or alternatively that Gove and Boris have reached agreement and Boris has been let off the hook with no loss of face. If that’s the case I imagine they sealed their bargain by clinking glasses in the Commons Bar together knowing full well that with Boris out of the running Teresa May will triumph anyway and at the end of it all they'll both get a decent job.

[Ninefingers]

Gove has shown himself to be a back stabbing scumbag and has shown none of the statesmanship necessary to be Pm, I truly hope he disappears back up his own backside sooner rather than later.

I'm actually rather sad at whats happened to Boris in the last 36 hours, I may not agree with his politics 100% but I find him to be a lot more clever than many think.

[Gromit]

Being Prime Minister now has become a job not worth having. So Boris has // decided to settle for becoming the next Prime Minister after the next one. //

[naomi24]

^That's about right. Not now - later. As Ninefingers says, he's smart!!

[mushroom25]

//As Ninefingers says, he's smart!! //

indeed. he was at eton just like other prominent tories but unlike the likes of cameron et-al it wasn't family money that got him in, but a scholarship - he was there entirely on merit.

[Jackdaw33]

If the other candidates have any sense they will all withdraw and leave Theresa to be crowned unopposed.

[sp1814]

Jackdaw33

Spot on.

Theresa is the only one to have come out of this with dignity intact.

I've always thought of Mrs May as being 'my kind of Tory'. I wish best of luck.

[sunny-dave]

I have actually met Mrs May at a HoP reception - an impressive and knowledgable woman who'd done her homework on the subject in hand (unlike one or two other MPs, Labour and Conservative, who were definitely busking it).

Rather her than either Gove or one of the flyweights.