So what happens now then? Tory Leadership ...
🌳 What to watch out for this weekend …
💰 The new chancellor
🎉 Live event - Freddie Fforde, Patch
🐏 Derby County Saved
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🌳 What to watch out for this weekend …
A key factor in the coming days was actually mentioned in Boris Johnson’s resignation speech, alongside the amazing ‘them’s the breaks’ line, he also talked about the ‘herd instinct’ which deposed him.
I watched open mouthed yesterday when Beth Rigby described Boris Johnson as the heir apparent to Theresa May when she stood down, that was categorically not the case.
What Boris was able to do was build incredible early momentum which made him unstoppable very quickly. (I was sat at a table at Founders Forum with Brent Hoberman and Archie Norman when the first round of MPs vote was announced over lunch, with Johnson polling over a third of MPs in the first round, it was clear then he was going to win then, but not before)
That was partly because he built an impressive whipping team with Gavin Williamson, Nigel Adams, Grant Shapps and Ben Wallace (it is worth watching where those names put their chips this time - aside from the latter who may run himself)
The other names that I would flag in terms of almost a new vanguard of grandees who aren’t particularly affiliated to one wing of the party are Brandon Lewis, Simon Hoare, Damian Hinds, James Cleverley and George Eustice. Where those names go will be interesting …
The calculation for MPs is, weighing up who to back and how soon to go public …
Go early you get the most credibility with that candidate or
Go later when you can see where herd is going and have more chance of getting it right, but not getting as much credibility
💰 The new chancellor
Despite all this, there is the business of government to continue with. There are many duties that as Chancellor, Nadhim Zahawi will be carrying out over the next couple of months, such as relations with regulators and the Bank of England.
He came on Jimmy’s Jobs last month, we have recut the episode with him, where he talks about his background as an entrepreneur, what was behind the name YouGov, how Boris Johnson used to work for him, and how he fled Iraq aged 11.
The video is below:
🎉 Live event - Freddie Fforde, Patch
A reminder tickets go on sale on Sunday at 8pm for our first ever live event. If you want to come, make sure you subscribe to this email as this is where we will send the link.
I am really excited that we have secured Freddie Fforde as our speaker on Wednesday 3rd August hosted in Selkirk pub, Tooting, South London.
Freddie’s company Patch is one of the most interesting companies in the future of work space, as he focuses on ‘decentralised workspace’.
He has raised some money from some serious A-players like Robin Klein (co-founder of LocalGlobe), Matt Clifford (co-founder of Entrepreneur First), Charlie Songhurst, Camilla Dolan (founding partner of sustainable investor Eka Ventures), Zoe Jervier (talent director for U.S. investment firm Sequoia).
You can read the piece on the fundraise in Techcrunch
It is a trial before I expect to sell out Wembley next year 😂 😂
We’ll be releasing tickets at Sunday 10th July at 8pm, we will send the link through this notebook, so make sure you subscribe so you don’t miss it. 👇👇
🐏 Derby County Saved
Local businessman, David Clowes stepped in and has saved Derby County, his letter to the fans was perfectly poised, as he says, he is a private man and is clearly hugely reluctant to take the club on.
Despite Derby starting in the third tier of English football for the first time in my lifetime, I feel more deeply connected with the club than ever before and am strangely more optimistic than I have been in a long time.
I did a Twitter thread on the various ways the fans organised themselves and played their part in #SaveDerbyCounty
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