Nick Boles, a former skills minister under David Cameron, dealt a major blow to Liz Truss yesterday after revealing that he would vote for Sir Keir Starmer’s Labor Party in the next general election. The Remain-supporting ex-MP for Grantham & Stamford previously played a key role in Michael Gove’s bid for Tory leader in 2016, in which Mr Gove was accused of sabotaging Boris Johnson in the race to place David Cameron at number 10. to replace.
Boles, however, seemed to increasingly break away from the Conservative Party during the Brexit years and spectacularly resigned from the whip after his motion to keep Britain in the EU’s single market failed to win the House of Commons. pass.
Writing for the Guardian yesterday, the ex-Conservative MP put even more pressure on Johnson’s successor, Liz Truss.
He claimed that Mrs. Truss and her Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng “have a level of intellectual confidence commonly found in college students”.
Boles also said the UK is “starting to discover what it’s like to be led by people who despise compromise and lack all humility”.
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The former Grantham & Stamford MP concluded: “[People] will look for leaders who are cautious, responsible and steadfast.
“They don’t think they know everything.
“Who listen and are in touch with people’s everyday worries.
“I predict they will conclude, as I have, that it is the Labor leader, Keir Starmer, and his shadow chancellor, Rachel Reeves, who best fit the bill.”
Chris Curtis, head of political polls at Opinium, said: “One last point about the polls right now.
“It’s also important to note that Labor’s numbers are rising just as much as the Tories on many of the underlying questions.
“This is not only a case of the Tories becoming less popular, but also of Labor becoming more and more popular.”