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Yup, terrible policy. Even more so on a personal level. Put work on your personal device, it's no longer personal. Company subject to a dawn raid? Used your personal device for work purposes? Sorry - that's a work device and can be searched.

For the record, the answer was yes, yes she could. She finishes out her time as PM by achieving a net favourability rating of -77.

True. However. Who you vote for in your local seat has consequences at a national level, and voters know that. You are only describing step 1 in the UK system and appear to be willfully ignoring what comes after that. 1. Voters in electorates vote for their local MP. 2. (Most) MPs affiliate...

Yeah, I'm not ignoring it - said multiple times I understand it. And I also know that in marginal seats the local individual can and does make a difference - plenty of examples could be cited where a marginal seat result has swung on specific campaigning for / against the local candidates...

I'm not trying to change the constitutional position. I'm arguing that there is a difference between what is constitutionally / legally the system in use vs how people *think* when they actually vote. What matters at the end of the day is what people think. That's why political party's try to...

It's called a proxy vote. We might not have Boris or Starmer or Truss etc on our specific ballot paper, and as I said you are absolutely correct in terms of the mechanics of the system. But that's irrelevant when it comes time for the voter to walk in and mark their ballot. When they do that...

Legally, and constitutionally, you are 100% correct. We vote for MPs to represent various seats, and those MPs will then choose who the PM will be. Absolutely, 100%, the correct interpretation of the system as designed. However. Reality would like a word. The reality is that politicians group...

Like I say, the immunity rule is universally accepted in the political press - they've consistently reported on it for a weeks now. This is just one example from numerous that come up by Googling "Truss immune"...

The 15% normal rule is irrelevant. I know you've gone looking and not found it, but it's well known and universally accepted among the political press and Tory MPs that Truss is "immune" from the standard challenge rules for 12 months from when she was elected (in the same way that May was...

It won't have been 40. The records have been corrected and show 36 Tories abstained. Of those 36, several have a "good reason" for not voting (eg there's one in hospital, a few are paired, Boris is on holiday again...). I suspect the actual number who get disciplined (assuming Truss survives...

Agree. Momentum appears to be building after last night's shambles. Several new calls for resignation this morning already, and 1922 committee members openly talking about the "odds are against" Truss surviving the day.

This is why Javid didn't ask a question in PMQs. Apparently, it was going to be a zinger and his ultimatum to not ask it was for this to happen.

Sajid Javid didn't put his question in because ... well, still doesn't reflect well on #10!

It's been reported on an awful lot by the press (the 12 month immunity), so can only assume it's true.

The 1922 can change the rules. In this case, the 15% threshold is currently irrelevant because Truss is immune (under current rules) for 12 months from the date she was elected Tory leader. Brady has simply told her that he considers 50% / 33% (depending which rumour you believe) to be the...

Sajid Javid on the list to ask a question just days after a #10 source savaged him ... could get awkward!

Already out of date - apparently the threshold Brady is looking at is 33%. So the target is 119 MPs submitting letters. There were reports just a few days ago that he already had 100...

Boris wasn't great in PMQs but he just about saw his way through them well enough to get by given how much of the electorate seemed to be forgive him on the basis of buying into the bumbling fool schtick he had. Truss doesn't get that free pass. She can't pull off the "Boris Bumbler" approach...

How long is a piece of string? I think a lot will depend on how she fares in PMQs today. If she stumbles, it's game over.

Corbyn and Boris both bottomed out in the 50's. Truss is by a very clear margin the least popular PM / LOTO on record. Bit of Stockholm syndrome going on there with the Truss voters?