It looks like PopCon is gearing up to be more than just a movement pushing for free-market ideas. It appears Director Mark Littlewood and the Popular Conservatism team are prepping for a Tory leadership election after the presumed general election loss, planning to put up a free-market leaning MP to ensure no wets are selected. Littlewood is reported to have 70/70/70 strategy in his plans to install a Trussite leader. Get 70 MPs’ and 70,000 members’ support, 70 days after the election. Though the numbers may be tough for PopCon to reach when polls are saying that the Tories may only keep 140 MPs after the election, most of which are likely to be One Nation…
Mark Littlewood on his friend from his student days, Prime Minister Truss
“I suspect we are about to bear witness to the most radical British Prime Minister in over a century.
We can expect to see a whirlwind of activity and announcements from the very first minutes of her entering Downing Street. Given the speed she is going to have to operate at, there inevitably will be missteps. But the overall direction of travel in the Truss administration will be crystal clear – to move power and money away from the state bureaucracy and into the hands of ordinary men and women.
It remains to be seen exactly how far she can move Britain in that direction in the limited time she has available to her, but I can’t wait to find out.”
Speaking to Sky News off the back of Rachel Reeves’ Air Passenger Duty hike, Ryanair chief executive Michael O’Leary said:
“Labour is dependent on those Red Wall seats, and yet every move she makes poisons economic growth and damages the UK’s recovery… it’s the Chancellor who stumbles from policy misstep to policy misstep… I think her policy decisions are incredibly stupid.”