At the Conservative Party Spring forum on 17 March 2018 and confirmed by party headquarters it was announced that the Tory party has a membership of 124,000. Following a recruitment drive in 2018 the membership increased by 36,000, as reported by the Daily Telegraph last month.
That’s how news organisations come to a current estimate of 160,000 members.
Suspending parliament was a suggestion made by Dominic Raab, and he got ridiculed for it last night by the other candidates.
While it has been reported that Johnson has said in private that he wouldn’t rule out suspending parliament, at the official launch of his campaign last week he stated that he was against such a measure. At the same event he also said that he wasn’t aiming for a ‘no deal’ Brexit.
Watched a bit of the debate. Once again I become confused as to how Dominic Raab ends up, again, with people supporting him to be Prime Minister. The guy’s fucking rubbish.
With the secondary message of “in the short time I was in Brussels I convinced everyone I was an awful cunt but, yet, I’m still the best man to get a good deal”.
I mean the best line he could come up with against Rory Stewart last night was… comparing him to Nicholas Maduro. Come on.
In a personal film for BBC One’s This Week, he picks out one political bloom - Tory Rory Stewart - but says he is in the wrong party and has chosen the wrong side of the Brexit debate.
“he’s great, the only problem is that he has all the wrong opinions and policies”.
Doing a big speech that explicitly says “Labour should galvanise around a Remain position”, I guess. Seems to me that he’d have been wiser to (whilst not remain completely silent on the issue) just wait for Conference and see what movements the Membership make. His intervention doubtless makes a more explicit Remain focus less likely, rather than more, given as it’s clearly seen (rightly or wrongly) as an attempt to rinse Corbyn above all else.
Tom Watson done a speech has he? He’s saying Labour should adopt a hardline Remain position as a matter of urgency? Seems to be a mostly pointless act to try and undermine Jez? Well I’ll be.
also, looking through their voting records - there’s not much between them is there… is that because they are always whipped to follow tory policy?
and because they always follow party lines, they are up to be leader?