Nostalgia for Boris Johnson as Tories lose enthusiasm for Liz Truss

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This week’s hustings show many members are unenthusiastic about Sunak or Truss – and might even prefer the current PM

As Conservative party members filed into the latest leadership hustings at a baking hot Cheltenham racecourse, very few among this important electorate seemed enthused by the two-way race.– excited much Tory passion, nor seemed the subject of heavy betting. Some of those who attended, and who will decide the identity of the new prime minister, suggested they had come along out of duty, to choose the least worst option on offer.

Caroline Baldwin, who runs a property business with her husband, said she was leaning to Truss but not firmly, while Jude Walker, who used to vote Labour, but had switched to the Tories a few years ago because she liked, seemed to wish the dethroned PM could carry on, as she arrived to assess the qualities of his potential successors.

Two hours of speeches and interrogation later, many views had changed. Some undecideds had made up their minds, some decideds had switched allegiances, while others had just hardened their opinions in the direction they were already leaning. Strikingly, the movement was by no means all – or even predominantly – towards the hot favourite Truss.

 

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Brits out here longing for the day when their PM was just a buffoonish liar, not a buffoonish liar who was also and out and proud fascist. Just another normal one on Terf Island.

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