Stephen Bush: Personally, I think the most interesting thing about the last couple of days is that Sunak, who visibly had to be dragged into saying the 'supermajority' stuff, was still doing the 'I can win' stuff on air this Sunday, is now saying it and has brought Boris back. CCHQ's data must be *BAAD*.

Personally, I think the most interesting thing about the last couple of days is that Sunak, who visibly had to be dragged into saying the 'supermajority' stuff, was still doing the 'I can win' stuff on air this Sunday, is now saying it and has brought Boris back. CCHQ's data must be *BAAD*.

These are the right decisions in my view given where they are, but given that Sunak did not want to say the Labour landslide thing *on Sunday*: woof they must be looking at some alarming numbers. (Or maybe he has just been micromanaging so much he has only just seen them, TBF.)

I think they probably are right decisions but calling Johnson in for that last minute rallying of the troops doesn’t exactly bode well for their post Sunak landscape does it? The matricide of Margaret had a long shadow, this time it’s gonna be Big Dog Daddy Issues, discuss

Oh, very very definately. You can already see it starting

Oh dear. Boohoo.

Just seen want Merriman has said … almost suggesting a current minister may not vote Tory

Yeah, punchy, wasn't it?

Carrie, pack your bags, we are going living on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales, there might be an opening very soon.

i can't argue that - there lies madness but if it lets Farage in that is frightening

I think my main thing is that I just can’t see what their clearly desperate plea that Starmer is somehow left of Bevan is designed to do other than get out the Corbynite vote that might have decided this is too safe a majority to bother.

Watching the Boris event, I started wondering if they're now down to voters who are actual party members.

Yeah. It was rather sad, wasn't it? Terrible lighting, Boris Johnson looked like he'd been sleeping under a bridge, bad audio, the whole thing looked cheap and rushed, like a Ukip conference in the Diane James era.

This is the reason to fear for the Tories. What is their support structure beyond the parliamentary party? It really could implode remarkably quickly if there's nothing propping it up

don’t fear for them

Was the sound bad on telly too? We could barely hear them.

Are we sure he hasn't been sleeping under a bridge?

For semi-foreigners like me, what Boris Event?

Boris Johnson did a rally with Rishi Sunak. To give you an idea of the image quality, here's what the friendly press has gone with. Man looks like it's A Weekend at Bernie's style deal.

“Everything I know about sperm donors” plus “pregnant with horrors” plus Boris Johnson is just too much

*Giles from Buffy voice* yes, that's the most appalling thing you could've said

well, to be fair he has allegedly donated a fair bit of sperm just via traditional means

Yes, I didn’t think that needed explaining

That must be on purpose. It's a different headline to the article in the app

😃

Sorry for splitting the converation across two platforms, but the problem with bringing Johnson out at the last moment is he's rusty and has no time to play himself in. No one would want a banner headline above Johnson with the word pregnant in it!!!

They still think Boris is an electoral winner for them. Delusional.

"Everything I know about sperm donors" above a picture of a man who has fathered and abandoned more children than he's publicly confessed to. I think someone on the Times is sick of the lot of them.

Finally... 😏

😂

grunge era boris!

He looks like they flew him in from the Maldives on a redeye for this.

"pregnant with horrors" sounds like a low budget horror film about his progeny (no offence intended to his living children).

Does he have a girlfriend called Rosemary?

Possible.

You get me those pregnant horrors. Don't make me climb over this desk.

“Pregnant with horrors” is quite the turn of phrase for Boris to choose, I must say.

Did Michael Fabricant’s wig maker have a sale on?

The survey about WFH commissioned by a company that makes printing accessories gave me a brief opportunity to see the back of my own skull.

Oh no, Johnson’s made them pregnant with horrors.

He would know, he's caused many pregnancies

How much do you think The Times anti Starmer stance has to do with his role as the DPP, who brought hacking charges against News Corp employees?

Ozempic is one hell of a drug.

😂

Oh man, and Ima there tomorrow.🍿🍿🍿

Boris Johnson pointing out, quite rightly in my view, that FPTP is an unfair system when there's more than two parties to vote for.

I know at least one party member who tells me she won't vote

That works for me.

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