Bring Back Boris?

The situation in the UK is best summed up the the person who tweeted their son is about to move onto his 3rd PM, Fifth Chancellor and 2nd Monarch and they are just three months old!

The Conservatives are basically f**ked. Their brand is terrible as families are facing a cost of living crisis and the Government is playing non stop musical chairs.

A new leader and PM should help them close the current 30% gap in the polls, but the reality is their job will be to lose slightly less badly in 2024. Kier Starmer will be the 80th Prime Minister of the UK.

What made things so bad for Truss is she was pretty unknown to the public before the disaster of the mini budget (you can cut taxes or you can massively increase spending but you can’t do both at the same time) so her brand went toxic.

Boris already has a well established brand. It might not be particularly popular with the majority but he probably has a higher floor (and lower ceiling) than Rishi Sunak. If you accept the next election is about losing less badly, then he might be the best bet.

If they think they actually have a chance of winning in 2024, then Sunak would be best. But he might lose what remains of the base, as he has never been that popular with them.