Current Events > Sunak and Javid resign within ten minutes of each other

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Its a comedy skit but its spot on.

The Daily Mail and Express front pages this morning make me gag. Poor old Boris!

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Starmer and Rayner have been cleared of breaching rules, so they won't be quitting any time soon. That'll embolden them further for a No Confidence vote, I'd imagine.

No doubt the Daily Mail editor will accuse the police and Labour of being in cohoots and undermining "our brave Boris"

Sunak's campaign website registered before Johnson quit
Aoife Walsh

BBC News Live reporter

Rishi Sunak has launched his leadership bid and with it a new website, Ready4Rishi.com, to promote his campaign.

We checked the history of the domain name for Ready4Rishi.com and found it was registered on Wednesday, 6 July - the day after Sunak quit as chancellor and the day before Boris Johnson resigned as Conservative Party leader.

We also checked the history of the similarly-named ReadyForRishi.com, which redirects to Ready4Rishi.com.

We don't know who set ReadyForRishi.com up, but that domain name was registered on 23 December, 2021, long before Sunak quit.

Why isn't Ben Wallace running?

He may still throw in - certainly people are telling him to as one of the presumed favourites (and if he did I'd expect it to be him vs Sunak when we're down to the last two and the campaign begins) but he's seemed surprisingly quiet over the last few days. Not sure why.

Well how's that for timing...
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What is the leadership vote timetable?

Sir Graham Brady, head of the Conservative committee which makes the rules on leadership elections has confirmed the final two leadership contenders will be narrowed down before MPs break up for the Summer recess on 21 July,

The final result of the ballot of Conservative members, and therefore a new leader and new PM, will come on 5 September.

But how will we get there?

Nominations will close on Tuesday, with candidates each needing 20 backers from among Tory MPs to go forward.

The first ballot of Tory MPs is expected to take place on Wednesday from 13:30 to 15:30, with a result being announced later that day.

To progress from there to the next stage, candidates will need at least 30 votes from MPs.

Then a second ballot is expected to happen on Thursday.

Once the rounds of votes have whittled the field down to two candidates, the choice will go out to Conservative Party members.

Over the summer, there will be around a dozen hustings around the country, where the two rivals will try to persuade the party faithful of their bid.

Brady says Conservative Party members will be able vote electronically and by postal vote to select their final choice.

Well how's that for timing...
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When I saw the title of the article, my first thought was the basketball player and the second was "he's involved in British politics?"

BREAKING
Government won't allow confidence vote - Labour
Boris Johnson's government is refusing to allow time to debate a vote of no confidence, Labour says.

The party tabled the motion in Parliament earlier, with the aim of challenging Conservative MPs to oust the prime minister as they simultaneously hold a leadership contest.

Labour wanted to hold the vote tomorrow, but the party says the government won't allow it to go ahead.

Downing Street says confidence votes are conventionally held in governments and not individuals, such as prime ministers.

"This is totally unprecedented," a Labour spokesperson says. "Yet again the Tories are changing the rules to protect their own dodgy mates.

"All the Tory leadership candidates should denounce this flagrant abuse of power to protect a discredited prime minister.

In a statement, a government spokesperson said: We have given Labour the option to table a straightforward vote of no confidence in the government.

"They have chosen to play politics by tabling a vote of no confidence in the government and the prime minister."

In other news, it's looking unfortunate for Rehman Chishti

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Chishti was elected as a Labour member for Gillingham North ward on Medway Council in 2003. At the following council election in 2007, he was elected to represent Rainham Central ward as a Conservative.

Government won't allow confidence vote - Labour
Boris Johnson's government is refusing to allow time to debate a vote of no confidence, Labour

Got to distract from their universally abhorrent takes on wanting to cut any and all money spent on anyone not rich with some EPIC BANTS.

Lmao, yeah. I saw that.

Truly a baffling state we are in where appealing to a minority of bigots is the current priority and not the cost living crisis.

Government to hold a confidence vote itself

Nick Eardley
Political correspondent
The government is tabling its own confidence motion.
It comes after it refused to allow time for a vote requested by Labour because of the wording of the motion.
A vote is expected next week.
Labour were given the option to table a straightforward vote of no confidence in the government in keeping with contention, however they chose not to," said a spokesperson for the government.
To remedy this we are tabling a motion which gives the House the opportunity to decide if it has confidence in the government.
The government will always allow time for appropriate House matters whilst ensuring that it delivers parliamentary business to help improve peoples everyday lives.

Looks like we are going to have Rishi to fix all the terrible terrible things Rishi did. Rishi would never let Rishi do what Rishi did if Rishi was in charge!

Rishi or Penny are both fucking awful choices now Penny has stabbed her trans friends in the face and dragged them naked through the streets.

Not that she was good regardless of her past claims to support Trans people. But was about the only decent thing out of any of them.