Here's a list of potential candidates to replace Theresa May as Conservative Party Leader in the UK. The list was pulled from British media sources.
Poll Who do you think will replace May?
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I think this belongs in Misc, not in TV & Media.
It's Hammond who's broken his knee, isn't it? Oh, different May.
Within what timescale? I've got a horrible feeling we've got her for a while yet.
Can't see how it won't be Boris. In an ideal world I want to see Ruth Davidson as leader but given she isn't even a Westminster MP yet any leadership bid has to be some way off. We'd need for there to be a by-election, for her to be parachuted in, for her to win and then realistically she'd need cabinet/shadow cabinet experience.
Maybe Rudd, though the fact that she only retained her seat with 300 votes last week makes her a dangerous choice. Other than that I think Javid or Davies are potentials.
There's no way IDS would ever get the job given how woeful he was last time.
Maybe Rudd, though the fact that she only retained her seat with 300 votes last week makes her a dangerous choice. Other than that I think Javid or Davies are potentials.
There's no way IDS would ever get the job given how woeful he was last time.
Betty White!
I know, she's not British, and not a politician, and given her support of gay marriage she'd probably not be the ideal person to head a coalition with the DUP, but given this is TV & Media, it seemed the appropriate answer, and honestly, wouldn't you just love to see this?!
I know, she's not British, and not a politician, and given her support of gay marriage she'd probably not be the ideal person to head a coalition with the DUP, but given this is TV & Media, it seemed the appropriate answer, and honestly, wouldn't you just love to see this?!
Damn, really? Hasn't the world suffered enough from boorish white men with horrible hair?
Iain Duncan Smith is a spent force (not that he ever had much value at the start). He had negligible presence as Conservative leader last time and his ministerial record is not likely to make him popular with the voters.
Michael Gove should be kept to the background. He only managed 14% in the last leadership election and I can't see his chances improving much by now. He is too tainted by Cameroon association. Also, a good chunk of today's younger electorate (the ones who overwhelmingly voted Labour if they voted at all) were in secondary school when he was Secretary of State for Education. They will feel duty bound to despise him.
Amber Rudd is May's preferred successor and was reviewed well for her performance in the campaign, but she's rather inexperienced in comparison with the others and I personally don't find her very endearing. There's also the matter of her rather unsafe constituency (although the upcoming boundary review could render that a moot point).
Elizabeth Truss is a wet blanket. Her public speaking is an embarrassment and she was demoted from Lord Chancellor because of incompetent performance. She is on record as having expressed republican sentiments during a brief flirtation with the Liberal Democrats in the nineties, which would make it difficult for the party to campaign against Corbyn.
Ruth Davidson is too valuable in her current position. It would be a great risk to have one of the new Scottish MPs take the Chiltern Hundreds and arrange a by-election just to get her into the Commons.
Jacob Rees-Mogg is not a serious contender. He is more spiritually suited to the backbenches (just like Dennis Skinner). Though he has a bit of a cult following at present this is unlikely to translate into mass support as a party leader.
Sajid Javid has some perks. He rose quite swiftly through the ministerial ranks and isn't incurably tainted by any scandal (to my knowledge at least). Also, having a comprehensive-educated non-white Muslim against old-cishet-white-male-independent-and-grammar-educated Corbyn could embarrass the Labour party (Cameron already joked that it was 2-nil on female heads of government, now they can really twist the knife.), but I wonder if he will be sufficiently "genuine" for the voters. His Picard-inspired speeches could turn heads here but the general public might be put off.
Michael Gove should be kept to the background. He only managed 14% in the last leadership election and I can't see his chances improving much by now. He is too tainted by Cameroon association. Also, a good chunk of today's younger electorate (the ones who overwhelmingly voted Labour if they voted at all) were in secondary school when he was Secretary of State for Education. They will feel duty bound to despise him.
Amber Rudd is May's preferred successor and was reviewed well for her performance in the campaign, but she's rather inexperienced in comparison with the others and I personally don't find her very endearing. There's also the matter of her rather unsafe constituency (although the upcoming boundary review could render that a moot point).
Elizabeth Truss is a wet blanket. Her public speaking is an embarrassment and she was demoted from Lord Chancellor because of incompetent performance. She is on record as having expressed republican sentiments during a brief flirtation with the Liberal Democrats in the nineties, which would make it difficult for the party to campaign against Corbyn.
Ruth Davidson is too valuable in her current position. It would be a great risk to have one of the new Scottish MPs take the Chiltern Hundreds and arrange a by-election just to get her into the Commons.
Jacob Rees-Mogg is not a serious contender. He is more spiritually suited to the backbenches (just like Dennis Skinner). Though he has a bit of a cult following at present this is unlikely to translate into mass support as a party leader.
Sajid Javid has some perks. He rose quite swiftly through the ministerial ranks and isn't incurably tainted by any scandal (to my knowledge at least). Also, having a comprehensive-educated non-white Muslim against old-cishet-white-male-independent-and-grammar-educated Corbyn could embarrass the Labour party (Cameron already joked that it was 2-nil on female heads of government, now they can really twist the knife.), but I wonder if he will be sufficiently "genuine" for the voters. His Picard-inspired speeches could turn heads here but the general public might be put off.
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^That list omits a profile of Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson - see my sig for a summary.
June
June something-or-other.
At this stage even Basil Brush would be better, if he can survive 70's BBC recent scandals and come out the other side clean then Brexit should be a walk in the park.
The bedroom tax, Universal Credit and other such controversies
Have Labour even managed to have a female Head of their party?
Thinking back over their leaders from the last couple of decades.
Corbyn
Milliband
Brown
Bliar
Kinnock
Foot
What about the Lib Dems have they had a female lead?
^The nearest Labour has managed are deputy leaders Harriet Harman and Margaret Beckett. The current LibDem deputy leader is Jo Swinson. Neither party has had a female leader.
Every time I see this thread the word "June" pops into my head. I am posting this as a kind of excorcism.
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