Why didn't Boris stand?
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Has anyone come up with a quick explanation of why Boris was so easily pushed out by Gove?
Given Boris' obvious ambitions and his popularity in the tory party I really don't understand why Gove standing would mean that Boris felt that he couldn't.
Does Gove 'have something' on Boris ? If not why did he step back?
Given Boris' obvious ambitions and his popularity in the tory party I really don't understand why Gove standing would mean that Boris felt that he couldn't.
Does Gove 'have something' on Boris ? If not why did he step back?
Loads of theories here, or throughout the media:
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...
Couldn't form a team, or couldn't get enough votes, and didn't want to stand and fail is my guess.
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...
Couldn't form a team, or couldn't get enough votes, and didn't want to stand and fail is my guess.
Let new PM take on the challenge (blame/risk) of poor exit... after which an election will be called where he will come in as knight on a white horse an take over leadership and run for PM with the popular vote (where he has done surprisingly well). So, sacrifices a a year or two of a poisoned chalice in exchange for a better long term leadership with a potential legacy.
It is very simple.
The Conservative leadership rules whittle down the participants by MPs voting for each of them, the one with the least votes get removed and then they vote again and so on until there are only two left.
When there are two left the Conservative Party members vote on whom they wish to be PM, the members are Joe Public that have paid £25 to the party.
Boris is adored by the members.
He is not adored by the MPs.
He wouldn't have got to the last two (for the members vote) as when Gove joined he took a ,easier able amount of MP voting support with him, thus Boris lost some of the few MPs votes he'd managed to scrabble together.
He'd have beaten May hands down if he'd got to the members vote but the maths wasn't looking good to get that far.
Gove screwed Cameron, his best buddy and then Boris.
The Conservative leadership rules whittle down the participants by MPs voting for each of them, the one with the least votes get removed and then they vote again and so on until there are only two left.
When there are two left the Conservative Party members vote on whom they wish to be PM, the members are Joe Public that have paid £25 to the party.
Boris is adored by the members.
He is not adored by the MPs.
He wouldn't have got to the last two (for the members vote) as when Gove joined he took a ,easier able amount of MP voting support with him, thus Boris lost some of the few MPs votes he'd managed to scrabble together.
He'd have beaten May hands down if he'd got to the members vote but the maths wasn't looking good to get that far.
Gove screwed Cameron, his best buddy and then Boris.
grumbledoak said:
Loads of theories here, or throughout the media:
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...
Appear to be a discussion on that thread already running.http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...
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