Andrea Leadsom

Theresa May will make the best leader. Leadsom was far too inexperienced. Not sure how it works for a new leader to automatically become PM

So all the main Brexiters have now bottled-out!

They all wanted to leave but non is willing to do the dirty deed.

Just read that too. So where are the people claiming that she talks about abuse to gain sympathy?

She deserved the abuse, unlike others who have been abused for Jewish, female or holding different views. Or immigrants who have been told to go home.

Remember those who claimed Remain were gaining votes when Jo Cox was murdered?

She has just said she is going to quit the leadership bid because the abuse is too great.

Yeh, well she's going to stand down now so all clear for Theresa!

Black ops? The accusation sounds more like IDS trying to get back at Osborne (the elite) for his own resignation and crocodile tears. There had been reports about conflict between the two before IDS's resignation, because Osborne was reluctant to let him spend more money developing Universal Credit and the Work Programme.

I can't quite believe I'm defending Osborne and May, although I did warn friends who wanted to get rid of them to be careful what they wished for. Maybe it's all an elaborate plot to make Cameron's cabinet seem cuddly.

People can and will judge May on her record on immigration and the police, etc, but at least we know what that record is. With Leadsom, she's untested in a cabinet role and she revises her history as she goes along.

I've read that Leadson is a 'fresh face'. If all that's needed is a fresh face, I'm up for it. Is it too late to apply?

PS. I have no experience in politics, but I have two children!

Apparently, when the tapes were released and we could all hear exactly what she had said (and lied about saying) and more importantly how she had said it, she apologised to Theresa May by text- a poor substitute for a face to face apology. What an ill-mannered woman.

Black ops? She denied saying the babygate stuff, then heard the transcript, now it's some journalist entrapment! She said this garbage, now she's apologised for it, now IDS/IBS claims its all an elite conspiracy . Who are the elite? I would think AL and IDS come into that category.

.... And she wants to bring back fox hunting.

Black Ops - Angela Leadsom was at least not afraid to campaign in favour of Brexit, whereas May hid behind the sofa.

May has also spent numerous years as Home Secretary doing absolutely nothing to ensure the UK's borders were controlled.

Heard a commentator on the radio playing a clip of AL before the referendum saying the £ will stabilise and strengthen on June 24th. Meanwhile, the £ is lower than the Argentine peso and bitcoin in the currency stability list 2 weeks on. Shows how accurate her economic forecasting is.

Oh and Candelle I still haven't come up with a lunatic free haven. It has also dawned on me that AL cannot compare herself to Margaret Thatcher - that lady was famously "not for turning". AL has turned so often I'm amazed she isn't constantly dizzy. I did however come across someone who described her as Maggie with a Chainsaw - now that does create a picture

I know two retired Conservative councillors, plus three or four others who might be party members, and I'm pleased to say that they are all too sharp to be conned by Leadsom. They might even find TM a bit right-wing.

Thank you Tegan for raising the PM being booed today, Andy Murray was being pleasant but the boos of some of the crowd seemed churlish. Yes, it may be, there is a vague plan to make it seem an election rather than a coronation, who knows, the Chinese curse is: May you live in interesting times, ouch.

Candelle - politics.co.uk latched onto her statement from 2012 to the House mainly because it is a contradiction of what she said at her launch (I don't know if I am allowed to include links?)
She does have form for contradicting herself - Hansard Society’s annual parliamentary affairs lecture 2013 she said “I don’t think the UK should leave the EU. I think it would be a disaster for our economy and it would lead to a decade of economic and political uncertainty at a time when the tectonic plates of global success are moving." Andrew Marr raised it with her last Sunday and she defended her turn around by saying it had been a journey.
Sorry if this all seems a bit boring. 39 years of Financial Services tends to turn you into a bit of a researcher. Were I still working Andrea Leadsom would have provided me with a rich vein of comedy material on what not to do and she has come out with some crazy statements. But there again it seems a lot of people don't care about facts now. Gee I'm depressing myself.

I do wonder if Cameron [and a few others] had a long term plan to get Theresa May the PM job? Possibly the only plan thus far. By the way, does anyone ever remember a PM being booed at a sporting event before??

If Leadsom gets to be PM that will be the final nail in the UK's coffin

So relieved that TM is child free, so no future panics when your son gets lost in the desert or is implicated with other Harrow boys in attempting to get a coup off the ground in Africa. AL also says she is not a feminist, as a badge of pride, is this the sort of statement that endears to the Tory faithful in the Shires? So she does not believe in equality? All we want is an equal chance. On the Radio 4 today one of her ex bosses said she sat at a desk outside his office and worked out pay deals for traders, sounds like an accounts clerk. All a bit shabby

maglil55: can you please advise the fruits of your research? I think I want to join you.

This country is going to he*l on a handcart and I, too, fear for the future of my family.

As to Mrs Leadsom - I fear she is a duplicitous woman who will say whatever the person to whom she is speaking wants to hear - and then sleep well at night.

Theresa May is an extremely hard-working MP with a proven track record who may..... be able to undo some of the terrible damage inflicted on our poor beleaguered country or at least steer us through the next few years of uncertainty.

Primrose 25 - her views on employee rights goes back to a statement she made in the House of Commons in 2012 and I quote
"I envisage there being absolutely no regulation whatsoever,"
"No minimum wage, no maternity or paternity rights, no unfair dismissal rights, no pension rights—for the smallest companies that are trying to get off the ground, in order to give them a chance."
She was referring to companies with 3 employees or less and while I acknowledge that maternity rights can be problematic for the small business "no unfair dismissal rights" "No minimum wage" Really??
That CV? I would pay to see Claude Littner (Sir Alan Sugar's henchman) tackle her on that.
Oh and Disgruntled I know a lot of nice Scottish Islands. Won't help you though as we have Nicola Sturgeon already plotting IndyRef2 which could cause an even bigger mess North of the border. I have long been wondering where there is a safe place is to retreat to and escape the lunacy. I'll let you know if I think of anywhere.

He had a detached retina from a rugby injury when he was a teenager and lost the sight in his left? eye; he nearly lost the sight in the other one too but that was saved.

I remember when people criticised his writing on letters to bereaved families of servicemen and women; this was probably a result of his poor vision and not carelessness.

@ jeveve73.....I didn,t realise Gordon Brown had a glass eye !!!!!

@ Jaxie...Sadly though,we would all get her!

We could club together to buy a couple of single tickets for some of our politicians...failing that, we could throw them in Room 101.

www.mars-one.com/
Anyone interested?
I am too old now