A resumption of stable governance?

Finally we *may* have an end to the chaos of the last five and a bit weeks following Friday's about time too intention to resign statement from the Prime Minister Liz Truss following the final straw for many of an amazing premiership-amazingly inept and incompetent-of a motion to move a Fracking Bill that descended into farce of the first degree last Wednesday.

There was a foreshortened selection process for the leader of the Conservative and Unionist Party where three members of parliament were touted by supporters but with Boris Johnston deciding his standing would only lead to more disunity undermining his abilities and Penny Mordaunt being unable to pass the one hundred nominations threshold Rishi Sunak was the only one standing with a large majority of nominations.

Given the speed of all of this, the headline of Monday's papers was soon superseded by Mrs Mordaunt's withdraw from the contest late Monday Morning even though she had little support.

Thus by Monday we knew Rishi was to be the Leader of the Conservative and Unionist Party but under our constitution the previous Prime Minister's resignation has to be presented and accepted by our Head of State, His Royal Majesty King Charles III and after that he sees and asks the new Leader of the largest party in the House of Commons to be the Prime Minister in whose name he governs to Form a Government.

 

That in practical terms means with having a clear majority incoming Prime Minister Rishi Sunak after having a meeting ("audience with") the King, returned to No.10 Downing Street to deliver an sobering speech to the Nation and get on appointing Ministers many of which will attend daily Cabinet meetings with him.

This is an important event, the first ever appointment of a Prime Minister of Indian heritage, the son of immigrants following the then ground-breaking appointment of its first ever Woman Prime Minister in 1979.

It is a clear indication that sex and race are not impediments to getting on and holding supreme power in the Conservative Party as much as it, like the remainder of society does hold some prejudiced views in its members. 

It is interesting to note this has not yet been matched by the socialist Labour Party which makes more play on integration and inclusion.

Given he was a very successful chancellor during Lockdown striking a balance delivering much needed help while keeping a lid on finance and does understand finance well given his former employment, I feel if anyone can set us on road to dealing with the unprecedented crisis of inflation in food and fuel bills and a stagnant economic growth it is him.