Bye Boris, Patel Resigns & A Big Change

The end of a Johnson Government.

Good morning and welcome back to my rebranded newsletter Heaver News. More on that later on in this post.

First of all a big thanks to Dev for becoming the latest paid subscriber. Supporting this newsletter as a paid subscriber gets you full access to every post, supports my work and allows you to comment on articles.

I found this to be an interesting comment yesterday from paid subscriber Adrian who said:

“I like what I hear about Reform but under the current system, there’s no chance whatsoever that they could form a government and by splitting the centre-right vote we risk getting a coalition of undesirables.

“As a constituent of Kemi Badenoch, I am going to have to vote Conservative but obviously hope that Truss delivers - unlike Boris.”

Comments like these show the electoral danger for Liz Truss if Leavers continue to feel let down. Many voters could contemplate switching to Reform - or stay at home.

A good start for Truss would be appointing popular Conservative figures to senior Cabinet roles - including the fantastic Kemi Badenoch, as Adrian mentions there.

Another warning came from Anita who wrote that:

“Liz now has to deliver on the 2019 Manifesto of the Conservative Party, Which means taking back our borders, and leaving the ECHR, thus far I'm still for Reform UK, and unless people want the same old, 2 party system where nothing gets done, then Reform is the viable option.”

Can Liz Truss win over the likes of Anita and other Brexiteers? We will soon find out.

Bye Bye Boris

Well that’s it for Boris Johnson as PM then. He gave a characteristically upbeat speech this morning that rattled off his Government’s agenda and was something of a campaign stump speech.

In it he gave his full support to Liz Truss, who has one hell of a job on her hands to stamp her own identity on the Government.

The Johnson Government was one of much promise but a lack of delivery too many times. The illegal migration crisis has worsened for years. Legal mass migration has not been reduced from record-high levels. The UK is still signed up to ECHR. Article 16 wasn’t triggered. There was much talk of axing the BBC Licence Fee - then nothing happened.

At the same time there is clearly a feeling that Remainstream media played a role in hounding Johnson out of office.

I think many Conservative voters are pretty angry that they never got asked whether they wanted to boot Boris out of Government or give him a fresh mandate. That is going to be a major challenge for the Tory Party now, with Leaver support for the Conservatives having nosedived recently.

My one question is still this: instead of being forced to resign, why didn’t Boris Johnson back himself and call a General Election? He could have pitched to voters that if he was to be torn away from being Prime Minister he wanted the public, not Westminster, to decide.

I think he was badly advised not to do that. Boris is undoubtedly a fantastic campaigner and had he gone to the country with his back against the wall, against a Labour-LibDem-SNP Rejoiner alliance, perhaps the British public would have backed him again.

Now we will never know. As I said, Liz Truss now has a big job on her hands to convince many previous Tory voters that it is worth voting Conservative again.

As for Boris? Don’t expect him to be a quiet presence. There is already talk of a spectacular comeback.

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Patel Resigns

Priti Patel has also announced that she is resigning as Home Secretary.

I do have some degree of sympathy for Patel, who it seemed was always trying to implement policy against a tide of establishment blob wokeism.

Much like Johnson in some ways, much of what Patel said was good but the delivery left much to be desired.

The appalling scandal of illegal migration across from France has got worse over a long period now, multiple years.

Deals done with the French involving British taxpayers handing millions over in exchange for a worsening situation has amounted to a complete rip-off.

Talk of the Rwanda policy and turning boats back has literally been just that; talk.

As Nigel Farage has said:

“Much as I do like Priti Patel, no Home Secretary in history has overpromised and underdelivered on such a scale.”

It is said to be nailed-on that Suella Braverman will serve as Home Secretary in a Truss Government.

Given Braverman has advocated leaving the ECHR, surely that is exactly what the UK will now do.

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