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A Tory Said What (2024 General Election Series): February.
Welcome back to the second edition of the resurrected ‘A Tory Said What; post. As explained in the January edition, these posts were a common thread of the previous incarnation of this blog which I decided to revive as we eventually head into the next General Election; whenever our unelected Prime Minister Rishi Sunak [Feature…
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A Tory Said What General Election Year Series: January 2024
In the previous incarnation of The Mind of Rowan, I did a series of posts called ‘A Tory Said What’. These posts aimed to highlight comments that had been made by Conservative MPs that were incorrect, misleading or questionable to the outright disgraceful and just ridiculous. Given that 2024 is expected to be a General…
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We can’t wait for the Autumn Prime Minister, if you’re so confident of winning, call a General Election Now!
Under the Fixed Terms Parliament Act, the House of Commons can sit for five years and one day after it first met (17th December 2019) with a polling day expected to be 25 days later. That means a General Election must be held no later than 25th January 2025. It is therefore expected that we…
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Boris Johnson’s downfall and should there be a General Election?
‘The whole thing is unbelievable. As I write these words, Gordon Brown is still holed up in Downing Street. He is like some illegal settler in the Sinai desert, lashing himself to the radiator, or like David Brent haunting the Office in that excruciating episode when he refuses to acknowledge that he has been sacked.…