UK: Next Conservative leader

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Nick Clegg. [/hack]

But seriously, it'll end up being the last person we think of. The Tories never go with the obvious.

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New conservative leader? Is that terrible man gone? Why? What happened?

Cameron's still there and, apparently, safe... unfortunately.

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No love for Boris Johnson here...

Why would he want to go back to being an MP?

No matter how weak a candidate Livingstone is, Johnson has only got (at best) a 50% chance of re-election; the second set of elections is usually brutal for governments in their first term.

Huh?  2001, 1983, October 1974 (if that counts), 1966 and 1955 were pretty good elections for the first-term incumbent governments.

Unless you're only referring to the London mayoral elections, but we only have 2004 to go on as an example of what you're saying...

I think he meant local elections, our 'mid-terms' to use an Americanism.

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I thought George Osborne was percieved to be "the weakest link" of Cameron's government, and wasn't very popular?

He was the weak link in the Cameron shadow cabinet (he was barely seen during the election campaign), but his ratings have improved since the "emergency" budget in June. If anything, it's Nick Clegg who's the weak link in Cameron's government now...