I realise that we've got the existing "Where did it go wrong for the Tories?" thread, but I'm interested to who the forum thinks should be the next leader, and therefore the next prime minister. It will come as no surprise that I'd rather there wasn't a Conservative PM at all, but we are where we are and one of them has to win.
I wouldn't trust Hunt and Truss to water my plants, and they carry too much baggage. Zahawi stumbled rather a lot when being interviewed about his personal finances, which was a big red flag; Sunak does seem credible to me, but similarly he's got the financial "burden". I'm watching Mordaunt on the telly just now and I'm not sure - she did make a bit of a blunder when making her campaign video, though, which she clearly didn't think through properly - do we want that quality in a PM? That leaves Badenoch and Braverman; I don't know a lot about the former but I dislike the latter having seen her on various political shows.
Looking through that list, there is only one of them who seems vaguely credible to me, and that's Tom Tugendhat. His campaign speech was quite militaristic, but he isn't carrying the baggage of being a former cabinet minister and I think that we probably need a clean break from previous governments.
Thoughts?
I wouldn't trust Hunt and Truss to water my plants, and they carry too much baggage. Zahawi stumbled rather a lot when being interviewed about his personal finances, which was a big red flag; Sunak does seem credible to me, but similarly he's got the financial "burden". I'm watching Mordaunt on the telly just now and I'm not sure - she did make a bit of a blunder when making her campaign video, though, which she clearly didn't think through properly - do we want that quality in a PM? That leaves Badenoch and Braverman; I don't know a lot about the former but I dislike the latter having seen her on various political shows.
Looking through that list, there is only one of them who seems vaguely credible to me, and that's Tom Tugendhat. His campaign speech was quite militaristic, but he isn't carrying the baggage of being a former cabinet minister and I think that we probably need a clean break from previous governments.
Thoughts?