Nicky Morgan hints at plans to run for Tory leadership as Ruth Davidson gets tipped as future leader

[LeftishBrit]

Nicky Morgan has hinted at her intention to replace David Cameron when he steps down, telling a fringe at the party’s conference that she has demonstrated her leadership credentials by winning twice in a marginal seat.

While she refused to be give a firm answer to whether she would definitely throw her hat in the ring, she said she had demonstrated leadership by winning twice in her Tory-Labour marginal Loughborough constituency. It comes after last week she hinted she would run for the leadership but said it would depend on her family.

Ms Morgan, who replaced Michael Gove as Education Secretary burnished her moderate credentials, pledging to back the UK’s membership of the EU come what may, admitting she was wrong to vote against gay marriage and refusing to commit to opening new grammar schools. ...


Ms Morgan, asked whether she possessed the leadership skills to run for the Tory leadership at a fringe event hosted by the Huffington Post, Ms Morgan said: “Firstly, I’m not going to get into what’s going to happen. The time will come, other people will make the decisions.” She added that it was for “other people to decide” who ran but insisted that having won a marginal seat for two general elections running, she had proven the key leadership credential of “the ability for people to follow you”....

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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/nicky-morgan-hints-at-plans-to-run-for-tory-leadership-as-ruth-davidson-gets-tipped-as-future-leader-a6679031.html

[LeftishBrit]

1. What a big nothing she is!

Her only qualifications for office seem in her eyes to be that she's a woman and that she won twice in a marginal seat.

I'd take her more seriously if I thought that she was even running her own Ministry; she seemed for ages to be a figurehead and a puppet for Gove 'n Gibb, and I'm not convinced that she has any ideas of her own now. Mind you, Cameron seems to have managed a pretty successful political career on the basis of 'letting George do it' (and IDS, and Teresa May, and Andrew Lansley, and Michael Gove..); so maybe Morgan can too.

[T_i_B]

2. Hmmm.....

I don't think Nicky Morgan is an obvious choice for the next party leader, and I do wonder why she's being talked up by some.

Mind you, unless things change I don't see anyone other than Gideon Osbourne as the next PM.