Conservatives plot next ‘chess move’ to oust Rishi Sunak | William Hague

“The way you go about becoming the future leader is not actually to have a group that's called something going around touting as the future leader.”
The more Tory MPs plot to oust Rishi Sunak,“the fewer there will be in Parliament to stand for the leadership” says William Hague on #TimesRadio.
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[@PaulK-ve1pu]

The arrogance of these people. They have no concept of the common good and no interest in the plight of our country. Power is just a plaything, a toy to Tories. They don't suffer, no matter what.

[@georgerobartes2008]

For sure . Think less about winning and more about what the majority of the people want . Its pretty damn clear by the numbers what the people DON'T want .

[@bryangeake5826]

Their ideological dogma and Party survival has always been more important than the Country and its diversity, they represent the top 30% of the country in wealth terms, First Past the Post allows them to simply gain marginal seats and power by promising everything and delivering for mainly their 'Class'! But this time stagflation since 2010, Brexit, Covid incompetence and corruption and simply the lack of any real empathy will see them being defeated. I hope we move to PR in the 2030's that will split the Hard Right and Far Left off of both main parties and move to consensus politics, or we will become a parody of the politics seen in the USA!

[@gerardmackay8909]

@@bryangeake5826 I’d take issue that their heartland is where the affluent elite reside. You won’t find a single Tory MP in Oxford or Cambridge or most of the wealthy parts of London either. They do have some wealthy Home Counties constituencies but their rock solid safe seats are pi$$ poor rural backwaters full of insular people with low academic achievement. Places like Boston, Clacton, Bedfordshire, Cornwall, Lincolnshire, the most deprived areas of East Anglia along with the deeply rural central west. Just as in America the ‘right’ have found a new constituency comprised of people who have next to nothing but whose prejudices are easy to tap into.

[@lorraineharris5737]

It makes no difference to me they can try all they like reform all the way

[@PaulK-ve1pu]

@@lorraineharris5737Well it should matter to you. And Reform offer nothing but hate and bile.

[@dw-yl3ln]

Tories just reek of desperation at the moment.

[@MrDannyMacdonald]

'Chess move' - they're barely able to play connect 4

[@onlyme219]

😄👍

[@34566454332]

More like snakes and…. Well more snakes.

[@jsd8981]

Or drought's...

[@christinerobottom9444]

Tiddly winkies

[@onlyme219]

Hungry hippo

[@westonharley1580]

Pritti awful prospect

[@melgrant7404]

William from one failure to another.

[@Baschn66]

Pritti pathetic to suggest this could be a possibility. Call elections now.

[@sheila-we7em]

She is such a dreadful creature.

[@michaelhibbert4393]

The longer Rishi leaves the election….the more seats he will lose for the party

[@lukaszzaremba7642]

There never was any party but Christmas Party. Though de Pfeffel suggested it wasn't a party at all...

[@jsd8981]

That's for definet, fortunately the tory party dont see it LoL...

[@kewsiyehboah9514]

Well Said..

[@DW-indeed]

I've never felt so conflicted 😁

[@TheLucanicLord]

He needs to get his India deal so Infosys can flood the country like they've done with H1Bs in the US. If you work in IT you need to brush up on your communication skills so yo can train your replacement.

[@abidemicaxton2114]

Pretty Patel ? The Tories are gone

[@stephennoble]

And you were useless

[@Boghopper1979]

He's great in his post House of Commons career though; one of the few Conservatives worth listening to IMHO

[@johnmartin7158]

Truss was a million times worse. Rishi is a nice guy.

[@stephennoble]

@@johnmartin7158 deluded

[@stephennoble]

@@Boghopper1979 deluded

[@tommytitmouse]

@@johnmartin7158 Successful governments have been proven to be made of intelligent people, who govern with shrewdness, good decision-making, and the PM Must have a magnetic personality. The present Government or PM hasn`t any of those. And IF Labour replace them , we are simply back in the same boat as we are now because they have none of those essential qualities mentioned either.

[@zombiehunter170]

Rishi is an uncaring investment banker with a 700 mil fortune, who reminds me of a head boy at a private school, he has not ever got to worry how to pay his bills, the only way forward is a wealth tax and derail the gravy train that they are all trying to climb aboard, start to care about the population, we are important

[@larrygerry985]

The 700 million, Eton educated, he has never faced a real person in his life

[@SlowhandGreg]

wealth tax is too complicated just change council tax into a proper property tax based on value and adjust income tax accordingly, also tax wealth made from wealth at the same rate as wealth made from work

[@joesoy9185]

@@larrygerry985 Not Eaton, Larry, look it up ! Funnily enough, his parents were real people; a pharmacist and a GP.

[@tonysherwood9619]

​@@larrygerry985Winchester - second only to!

[@Joe-og6br]

He's a head boy who's suddenly became headmaster and he's completely out of his depth.

[@davidhall7744]

Shows you how much the Tories have fallen that Priti Patel seems moderate these days 😂

[@Rattlerbrand]

my question to all parties ? if MINIMUM LIVING WAGE IS £11.44 per hour x 40 x 52 £23,795.00 ?? WHY DO YOU PAY YOUR PENSIONERS £11,000.00" less" than the minimum living wage , after working 50 years to get a pension it's disgusting , any party can answer ?

[@misshs656]

All politicians need to live off minimum wage without perks, they will all soon come to reality

[@finite187]

The public could not care less how politically inconvenient it is for Sunak to name an election date. Just do it.

[@stevec6427]

According to Sunak in a radio interview a couple days ago, the public are telling him they don't want an election!!

[@GerryT.]

Is Patel under the illusion that the public like her?

[@joancooley1387]

She was the one who came up with the way to get illegals Out. She Warned Braverman of the pit falls. But it was ignored. Would sooner her over Braverman, Sunak,Hunt, and most of the other’s.

[@joancooley1387]

Are you under the illusion that they don’t. Do you Really know that many people.

[@GerryT.]

Not an illusion, there is zero chance that the public would vote Tory if Priti Vacant was PM. I suggest you read the comments on any social media platform regarding Patel possibly being PM. Most common post is 'is it an April Fools joke' And if you seriously think she's popular you're beyond deluded. She's in that cloud cuckoo land with the likes of Mogg, Cash, Braverman, a small club of idiots.

[@lw1zfog]

@@joancooley1387 they really don’t 😂

[@joancooley1387]

@@lw1zfog Mmm, Another one who’s traveled England. Speaking to millions of adults, face to face.

[@michaelspencer6318]

A party now so deluded that they think anyone will vote for Patel ,they really have lost the plot

[@rossmurray6849]

As a chess player I am deeply offended by comments likening the current shenanigans by assorted Tories to moves in a game of chess!

[@GerryT.]

Anyone actually believing the electorate wouldl vote for a Party with Priti Vacant as leader needs to see a psychiatrist.

[@CityOfTinyLines]

They voted for one with BJ as leader.

[@anonUK]

​@CityOfTinyLines They swallowed Boris's lies- and they were also, rightly or wrongly, scared to death of "Jezbollah" Corbyn.

[@miller4866]

Priti Patel has more intelligence in her little toenail than you will ever have.

[@stevec6427]

@@anonUK Boris didn't win that election, Brexit did

[@Miclor54]

@@stevec6427Shame that Brexit wasn’t fully implemented

[@AnthonyWilliams-ew3wp]

This discussion fails to take into account that Sunak may not hold his own seat.

[@bc5295]

The Times is far, far more interested in who the next leader of the Conservatives will be than who will be the next Prime Minister. When will the penny drop that it barely matters? I predict we'll be on the third or fourth next leader of the Tories before they are seriously challenging for power again. By then the Patel or whoever is next will be a has been (aka never was) like Hague. Get some damn perspective.

[@julianshepherd2038]

It's the failure show

[@onlyme219]

I'd never vote for her

[@frankcarter6427]

Jug ears thought he would solve the innumerable problems the Tories have created by sheer genius didn't he - his narcissistic ego predicted adoring throngs chanting his name in a national outpouring of love and gratitude - didn't go that way did it

[@adampowell5376]

Is this a serious programme? Any of the current contenders, would, according to the opinion polls, make the position of the Conservative Party worse except for Penny Mordaunt and even then she would not improve their chances by much.

[@user-nq2hg3mc1v]

If Priti Vacant is elected PM, that’ll be the end of everything I thought the UK stood for…..no choice then but to up sticks and leave!!

[@Boghopper1979]

Or you could stay and help us vote her out in the General Election

[@julianshepherd2038]

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 YES

[@davidhill6733]

I can do without Hague crawling up Sunak again. More to the point, the Tories should take the hint. They've blown it so many times that nobody in their right mind has any respect for them.

[@davidpaterson2309]

The scraping sound of chairs being moved on the deck of the Titanic.

[@karyne826]

We don’t want Suella or Priti either.

[@TheSuperPsychoKiller]

Hague speaks like an upper class English stereotype. Do people find this appealing or is it cringe?

[@JAMESLOONEY-kd1nu]

I keep thik8ng I'm watching Harry Enfield

[@Fidelisjoff]

Hague is uttelry woke.

[@johnmartin7158]

At least he is awake.

[@candyman5912]

This is the world we live in now, where being awake to injustice is being used as a pejorative.

[@deejay-su7uf]

Oust the immigrants whilst your at it.

[@jungletiger1900]

I've got a lot poorer under their rule, being a pensioner even with the triple lock, council tax, food stuffs, energy, sewage, are going through the roof and this is just the start, so good riddance and Labour will surely follow the same path, but I don't vote anymore for its all rotten to the core sadly.

[@annabellmccart269]

Election now

[@jackieogden7103]

Sunak makes Starmer seem dynamic. Sunak was not a good Chancellor for that matter. Most of the suggested candidates are crazy and will not bring the remnants of the more moderate Tories together with the crazier ones - Boris got rid of an awful lot of moderates in his drive to "get Brexit done". Kezia Dugdale had an extremely sensible point in that who you want to rebuild the Tories is not exactly the same as who you would want for Government - unfortunately the membership are as mad as some of the suggested candidates so you have to hope that the MPs either select their own choice or just come down to a saner two candidates - maybe get someone from the HoL (not Cameron though!)

[@jsd8981]

a big fan of sunak enough said...

[@Elxroid]

chess? they're playing tic tac toe and despite it being a solved game they are still losing 🤣

[@nihilistlivesmatter5197]

Really annoying how the Times starts with an excerpt from the middle of the piece

[@shelleyscloud3651]

Never voted Tory. Always voted left. Anti Brexit. But......please, give me the chance to vote for Suella.

[@johnmorris3894]

Connect Four is about the level of these Tory MPs.

[@Jonny_The_Organism]

But William Vague......

[@MeM_UK]

If Priti takes over I might actually rejoin the party.

[@keeshond8]

Sunak went to Winchester. The other public school you mention is spelt *Eton*

[@uingaeoc3905]

Nobody saw Hague coming ... but we all saw him going.

[@tonysherwood9619]

Asking if pritti patel is associated with benjamin netanyahu? Perhaps david cameron can enlighten us?

[@clarecrawford9677]

Patel certainly made an unauthorised trip to Israel to consult on how Israel had shipped refugees to Rwanda.

[@tonysherwood9619]

@@clarecrawford9677 sent to arms deal more like!

[@Boujois23]

They all need to go

[@archiemcberry7102]

Leave Rishi alone. The voters will decide sooner or later.

The insane asylum?

[@michaelchannell404]

i remember william hague saying that he could get all his MPs into a hotel for a strategy discussion... after the election the next tory leader would have difficulty filling a restaurant!

[@clivewalker5465]

UK sinking , and the Tories play a Board Game , a 80 Seat Majority , and in the next General Election , they will be lucky if they even get 80 seats .

[@keeshond8]

The Conservatives’ working majority is 60 seats or less, not the 80 it was in 2019.

[@hugodrax71]

They need a monumental reboot after the GE.

[@youtubeuser4645]

Imagine picking sides

[@tonysherwood9619]

Mossad quisling!

[@Nick-xf5hr]

Patels next move is to go down the job center and get her n/I covered while she’s unemployed. No one in their right mind would employ a bully.

[@PassiveAgressive319]

THIS IS NOT REAL

[@clairewilliams8225]

they're all like vultures, except vultures dont turn on their own kind.

[@lazslostpierre9951]

Priti Patel who can't read a number or know the difference between terrorism and counter-terrorism is unlikely to much of a chess player.

[@janepoynter3660]

STOP PLAYING GAMES WITH OUR LIVES !!!

[@kirishima638]

More chaos at the top. Meanwhile the country is falling apart. Give us a General Election NOW.

[@johnmcgillivary2064]

You have left it to late you are finished to out of touch on another planet

[@ivanconnolly7332]

Sunak v Smirk.

[@jeffsmith3392]

Don’t let the One Nation Tories off the hook. Let them own this massive defeat.

[@Guccit865]

He really has to go and take his creepy insincere laugh and grin with him.

[@fayemorgan1238]

Priti patel should not be anywhere near any position of power ever again. She would crumble any company she worked for. I wouldnt trust her to watch my cat for a few hours. Who cares if the tories like her...we dont!

[@FreddBoggz1st]

This guy was a compete usless backstabber like most of these clowns totally detached from the mood of the people

[@Flysarse]

Nothing worse than a woman on the plot.

[@nevillepass]

William Hague the guy who brought in universal credit wasn't he?goodbye Tories thanks for all the damage You've done especially for the poorest people while you have multi million pound houses ,somehow?😮

[@bigjohn1717]

Rishi sunak the clown that destroyed England but did ok himself and will continue to

[@lecturesfromleeds614]

Can we have an election please! Literally nobody voted for this

[@PoppiesAndPride]

HOW CAN ANYONE BE A FAN OF SUNAK ? IF THEY DO GET HIM OUT SHAME ON THEM ALL THEY HAD TO DO WAS STOP THE BOATS VOTE REFORM

[@monkeyboy8424]

Even after big splash Penny Mordaunt replaces nowhere man Ritchie Sunak, the Tories face extinction at the election.

[@uingaeoc3905]

Sunak 'get's the tone wrong' because he has tin ears.

[@andynjw1163]

This is what happens when a billionaire is left in charge of the country playing global monopoly.

[@TheBreadlord]

I've grown to really like the Times' investigative content, but please - core Times readers, fix your house. Enough with these people.

[@catherineventure3996]

I am against nurseries because they part young children from their mothers. What about mothers who feed theirchildren as nature intended? As a doctors son he should support stay at home mothers too.

[@richardyeo3920]

He really can't comment as he wasn't exactly perfect as PM just another Tory who is deluded.

[@dougtsax]

Why do you refer to the Tories by their first names and not their surnames like you do everyone else?

[@massive0crunt]

I bet you my country I will beat myself at chess

[@stephenjon3502]

Head to Wikipedia for Williams Word salad of complete waffle.

[@user-hf5rs1qh3t]

Still useless after all these years!

[@ahmedchowdhury3391]

Boris and rishi bogus leadership ever

[@eathan323]

You won't need to play chess sunak won't stay on after the election he wouldn't want to be humiliated in public although he's getting that now

[@xinma6034]

Curry

[@joesoy9185]

1:30 "even as distinguished as Radio Tees..." Naughty boy!

[@ianfraser6161]

Big fan of Sunak?? Why?

[@jonathanatkinson936]

Torybours all the same

[@catherineventure3996]

Can Richi support stat at home mothers too? The care properly for very young and very young in families and don't dump their children in baby dumps or their old folk in God's waiting rooms. His policies are destryung families and not really helping them.

[@ChrisCSquared]

Stop plotting and get on with it

[@robertfrancis7767]

William Hague, vague, boring, weak, droning, unfunny, personality bypass, I am being generous here likes similar Sunak. Only Sunak is more awkward, they need to learn that "I drink coke" Sunak and Hague "I drink 8 pints to get a personality" where electoral no hopers. The establishment produces 4th raters or in his case 66 to 1 shot. Their defending of Sunak is woeful he basically useless and no good. In Georgia in the US to describe something useless "that dog don't hunt". Sunak should step down after May Tsunami and let a new leader save Tory seats between then and Jan 2025, or it is 90 (current estimate) to 190 type scenario at best. Tories current facing losing the highest number seats in their history 275 seats.

[@scottlewis7893]

PRITI = MOSSAD

[@debashismukherjee3553]

Both the party members and the voters, in general, shouldn't forget that it's Rishi who saved the country from the financial disaster, brought about by Liz Truss's policy.

[@JeremyLivitt-qn2io]

This guy needs to shut up. Nothing he says has any credibility at all.

[@faffer1073]

Glass houses and all that, Jezza!

[@petegarnett7731]

Anyone who considers Patel must have a short memory.

[@five3two]

Bring back Boris! The public voted for him, he had a mandate and if it wasn’t for covid, would still be leading.

[@toms986]

No way Covid actually exposed him and how bad of a leader he is.

[@thedon8772]

Oh my goodness you must be a deluded Brexiteer!!! Boris bloody Johnston the man who single handedly ruined the country and all of it's institutions.

[@truthbehindthehiddenfaces8895]

Even if he is ousted "Rasheed Sanook" will continue to pm of Britain.

[@FreddBoggz1st]

Rishis done life long torie reform for me