Hammond

[TheOstrich]

Jumping before he was inevitably pushed?

And how many others are likely to hand in their resignation papers to Theresa May next Wednesday?

[jenniren]

Good riddance.

[Suff]

Hammond is totally for Remain on any terms. He will only ever accept that we leave the EU, totally tied to the EU, so that he doesn't actually have to do the job of managing the finances so that an independent UK will flourish.

If he's not up to the job he needs to leave. Given his activities of the last two years, it would be virtually impossible for him to stay. Add to that what he has already said about Johnson and there is no avenue left for him to pursue.

Perhaps he can vie with Osborne for the IMF job???

[medsec222]

As has been said so often, it wont take much to open the door to Jeremy Corbyn and his brand of politics. So why would a supposed Tory rebel against a Government with such a small majority. Surely it is now a case of battening down the hatches and working together in a concerted attempt to get the best possible outcome for the UK.

[cromwell]

As has been said so often, it wont take much to open the door to Jeremy Corbyn and his brand of politics. So why would a supposed Tory rebel against a Government with such a small majority. Surely it is now a case of battening down the hatches and working together in a concerted attempt to get the best possible outcome for the UK.

You would think so Meds, but given the chaos of the last three years who knows?

[Suff]

Some MPs are convinced that if we leave the EU, the public will destroy them. What they do not seem to realise is that if they do not get us out of the EU, even more people will be utterly determined to destroy them.

Hence this willingness to rip the party apart in a vain attempt to protect it from harm.

There is no harm free path out of this for either of the main parties. What Hammond should remember is that Tory voters, unlike Labour voters, are majority Leave. Which means Hammonds position is supported by significantly less than 50% of Tory voters.

They can't even say that it is business funding they are trying to protect as the largest Tory donors have switched to the Brexit party.

[Workingman]

Hammond, Gauke, Stewart, Rudd, Liddington and others are just the sort of Tories the politically unattached will vote for, without them the party is dead. The overwhelming majority of us are not part of the Antediluvian Order of Little Englanders and nor are we Momentumists. We inhabit the centre ground, or are just to the right or the left of it - that is the battle ground for all serious parties..

Labour, late in the day, seems to have cottoned on, but it has a huge clean-up job to do. The Greens and Lib Dems are already on board.

[Kaz]

Hammond is a decent man, Mick had correspondence with him when he was our MP (Runnymede) about the dangers of the prolonged closures of the level crossings for the new Heathrow train link. He answered the letters himself and seemed genuinely concerned.