Rory Stewart leaves the Tories

Unsurprising, he looks to be on the more liberal end of the party and completely opposed to Johnson and his courting of the hard right elements of the party.

So, that's Johnson's majority down to what, -46?

Rory Stewart has resigned from the Conservative Party (and we must assume the Tory whip in Parliament - it isn't yet clear if he is staying on as an independent MP), by publicly reading the famous letter from Johnson's headmaster at Eton dismissing Boris as someone who thinks the rules of society don't apply to him.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/oct/04/rory-stewart-resigns-from-conservative-party

Stewart has always been a principled MP and is someone who is clearly too good to serve in Johnson's strange parliamentary party of spivs, liars, self-serving money makers, slightly mad people and the threadbare remnants of a once great party.

This is also a clear indication that Boris has no intention of achieving a deal and Stewart knows he is just going through the motions so that he can blame the EU.

Unsurprising, he looks to be on the more liberal end of the party and completely opposed to Johnson and his courting of the hard right elements of the party.

So, that's Johnson's majority down to what, -46? Absolutely incredible that Theresa May looks like not even being the worst PM of 2019, let alone modern history

Unsurprising, he looks to be on the more liberal end of the party and completely opposed to Johnson and his courting of the hard right elements of the party.

So, that's Johnson's majority down to what, -46? Absolutely incredible that Theresa May looks like not even being the worst PM of 2019, let alone modern history

Johnson doesn't need a majority, as his plan from day 1 has been to go for no deal and then have a general election.

Rory Stewart is a joke of a politician. His views are not Conservative and, as one commentator said on Sky, he would have made a great leader for the Lib Dems or Labour, but not the Tories.

They're not in line with the current extremist quasi-religious right wingery that is modern Conservatism, but his views would have been completely mainstream Tory under a Heath government or even a Thatcher one. Actually, it says something about the current Tory Party that Mrs Thatcher's governments look sensible and moderate in comparison.

Johnson can't so much as authorise the purchase of a paperclip via Parliament now.

Corbyn really does have to allow a general election sooner rather than later, the current situation is increasingly ridiculous and unfeasible.

Johnson needs an election to get his own mandate. He is struggling because this is still Theresa May’s group of MPs.

Johnson doesn't need a majority, as his plan from day 1 has been to go for no deal and then have a general election.

Also Parties are a broach church where all views are welcome.

They should be, but right now, they clearly aren't.

This kind of demand for purist radicalism infects the minor parties as well - the Greens for example can be rather unwelcoming and obsessed with trivial greenshaming and norms based on upper middle class twittish interpretations of how to make progress.

They should be, but right now, they clearly aren't.

This kind of demand for purist radicalism infects the minor parties as well - the Greens for example can be rather unwelcoming and obsessed with trivial greenshaming and norms based on upper middle class twittish interpretations of how to make progress.

Just for this point, one of the funniest things I've ever experienced was being called a Faragist by a green party canvasser at the 2015 election for saying that I couldn't vote for the green party while they opposed nuclear power, since going nuclear and renewables is the best way to decarbonise our energy network without risks of blackouts and shortages.

Also Parties are a broad church where all views are welcome.

Rory Stewart is a joke of a politician. His views are not Conservative and, as one commentator said on Sky, he would have made a great leader for the Lib Dems or Labour, but not the Tories.

He's struggling because he's grossly incompetent, always has been.