Can Rishi Sunak stage a comeback?

Given the current conservative leadership candidates, how likely do you think it is that Rishi Sunak could become Tory leader again in the next two years as a desperate attempt to sway public opinion? Given that the Robert Jenrick and Kemi Badenoch are disasters waiting to happen as both are not capable to be leader.

Reply 1

Trinculo

Not a chance. The talk is that he's going to quit being an MP altogether and his seat will go to by-election.

Reply 2

ageshallnot

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by Trinculo

Not a chance. The talk is that he's going to quit being an MP altogether and his seat will go to by-election.

Absolutely agree.

Reply 3

StriderHort

Hard to say, but I could certainly believe they would try any old nonsense, esp given the contenders they had.

Reply 4

sdfj

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by Kingdragon

Both of them are rubbish and there is like zero chance Rishi will come back to power after resigning. I didn't think he did a bad job but there is little to no chance that any 'comeback' will happen.

Reply 5

Rob Bellic

There's a greater chance of Thatcher rising from the grave.

Reply 6

meenu89

he could, but he won't

Reply 7

McGinger

The Tories are now just pausing for breath with Kemi Useless and trying to work out if there is any sort of future for Conservativism, or if they want to re-invent themselves as a Righest party. Sunak would only have a role if they went through a total schism and the centre-ground MPs wanted somewhere to huddle in the storm - and Sunak won't have the stomach for that. His life would be far easier working for a fancy Merchant Bank in the States.

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by sdfj

Both of them are rubbish and there is like zero chance Rishi will come back to power after resigning. I didn't think he did a bad job but there is little to no chance that any 'comeback' will happen.

I liked him too - more so than any other Conservative leader in recent years. He seemed less willing to engage in political theatrics and was instead more pragmatic and decisive.

Reply 9

sdfj

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by Jedi BB-8

I liked him too - more so than any other Conservative leader in recent years. He seemed less willing to engage in political theatrics and was instead more pragmatic and decisive.

Unfortunately, 'pragmatic and decisive' doesn't really get you elected - it's a real pity because I do think he got the economy back from a potential crash after the Liz Truss nonsense.

I liked him overall but wasn't a big fan of his anti-immigration (and co) social policies. Unfortunately, the Tories are turning further and further to the right...

Reply 10

hotpud

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by sdfj

Unfortunately, 'pragmatic and decisive' doesn't really get you elected - it's a real pity because I do think he got the economy back from a potential crash after the Liz Truss nonsense.
I liked him overall but wasn't a big fan of his anti-immigration (and co) social policies. Unfortunately, the Tories are turning further and further to the right...

I think Rishi didn't really do anything. The government like to claim they control the economy but in reality they have little sway over it. The only lever they have is interest rates and thanks to Labour they don't even control that any more. Yes, they can spend more or less in the economy but one could argue that anything the government does sees very complex outcomes that are highly likely to be what was not intended.

Labour are discovering that they don't have much control over the economy just as the Tories didn't.

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by stopwethnocide

Hell no
people hate tories and labour
its perfect time for new parties to take charge who represent interest of the PEOPLE

The Greens or Liberal Democrats(not Reform UK)

Reply 12

BenRyan99

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by Geo Lover 7

The Greens or Liberal Democrats(not Reform UK)

Both are fundamentally unserious political parties.

The former has a co-leader who claims there's a climate emergency then votes against the infrastructure that is required to take the power generated from renewable sources to people's homes....

The latter.... well everyone saw their campaign gimmicks. The light-hearted approach did make me smile. But pursuing stunts over actually attempting to shape the public debate on policies that are very important to so many people was very disappointing in my personal view.

This isn't to say that other parties are much (or any) better. But I personally thought there was little in the Green/Lib Dem election campaigns to suggest that they would form effective governments.

Reply 13

Rob Bellic

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by BenRyan99

Both are fundamentally unserious political parties.
The former has a co-leader who claims there's a climate emergency then votes against the infrastructure that is required to take the power generated from renewable sources to people's homes....
The latter.... well everyone saw their campaign gimmicks. The light-hearted approach did make me smile. But pursuing stunts over actually attempting to shape the public debate on policies that are very important to so many people was very disappointing in my personal view.
This isn't to say that other parties are much (or any) better. But I personally thought there was little in the Green/Lib Dem election campaigns to suggest that they would form effective governments.

To be honest, the conservatives were very unserious and they somehow managed to keep winning elections for 14 years. For instance, Dave's ludicrous help-to-buy scheme inflated the UKs property bubble and the pension triple lock has locked us (pardon the pun) to unsustainable pension increases YoY.

The greens have been awful in regards to infrastructure (it's funny watching them squirm as Rayner implements Yimbypocalypse in Bristol by tripling their housing target). But then again, so have the Tories, when Nick Boles and later Robert Jenrick tried to promote meaningful planning reform they were shot down by the Tory Nimby faction (led by Theresa Villiers, who thankfully lost her seat last year).

Labour has generally hit the ground running apart from a few missteps. The budget was fine, immigration applications are down 42% and Labours planning reforms are credible (but lack imagination). Yet strangely they seem to be doing poorly in the polls...