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Originally Posted by jfman
I expect a reasonable number of Tory voters to be miffed since he knifed Johnson. And (perhaps rightly) be vocal about it.
Similarly the elite of a supposedly democratic political party installing it's candidate over that chosen by a membership isn't an ideal foundation to go forward.
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No, but they’ve done it before (c.f. IDS/Michael Howard). The wider tory party doesn’t have the same sort of political consciousness as the British Left. They’ll sigh and get on with it.