The problem with that strategy is that it relies on Tory MPs not doing in private what they are, as a whole, too frit to do in public (eg calling for the vote, and actually voting against him.)
And that's a silly thing to have done, as he will soon realise. Particularly as he's only in the job because he's not Ken Clarke and not Michael Portillo.
Major got more votes in that leadership election than he did in the 1990 one, where he had just less than half the votes in the second round but both Heseltine and Hurd withdrew anyway!
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Date: 2003-10-29 06:17 am (UTC)And that's a silly thing to have done, as he will soon realise. Particularly as he's only in the job because he's not Ken Clarke and not Michael Portillo.
Major got more votes in that leadership election than he did in the 1990 one, where he had just less than half the votes in the second round but both Heseltine and Hurd withdrew anyway!