Exiling her is a temporary fix but solves nothing.
A plurality of party members express support for a system under which employers and employees fund most healthcare, rather than having it provided by the state free at the point of use.
But it is hard to see how he can become leader again in this Parliament, in which so many of his own MPs refused to serve under him.
Talking a good game about the health service’s failings is a very different art to ending an unsustainable model.
Even with a political career played at such a high speed, the many-hatted former Cabinet minister has still found himself over-taken by his juniors.
Some Tory members would see such a development as nothing less than an establishment coup: as a conspiracy of bad actors working together to win revenge for Brexit.
Under this scheme, the ’22 Executive would change the rules, Truss would go – and a high threshold would be set to ensure only a single nomination.
The two candidates have less than ten days to bring to the campaign her conviction that sticking with the status quo simply won’t do.
On the basis of this finding, he will need to make more of a campaigning impact soon to cut through to Party members.
Three Conservative backbenchers, and then most damagingly the recently resigned Health Secretary, told the Prime Minister it was time to go.
The former Health Secretary tells MPs that “enough is enough” when it comes to the Prime Minister’s leadership.
“The tone you set as a leader, and the values you represent, reflect on your colleagues, your party and ultimately the country.”
If an independent review cannot create the space for radicalism, then NHS England will be unlikely to yield anything better.
Centralising power and imposing top-down reforms usually ends up backfiring on service users in the end.