Let's take a look at the currents swirling inside the UCP leadership race

July 29th, 2022 - Alberta Politics, Danielle Smith, UCP Leadership Race 2022

Let’s take a look at the currents swirling inside the UCP leadership race

Premier Danielle Smith.

Get used to it. That appears to be where we’re headed after watching the first official leadership debate Wednesday evening in Alberta’s United Conservative Party race to replace Premier Jason Kenney.

There might be seven people on the track but Smith seems to be the only one with a steering wheel — and she’s leading everybody in circles with no off ramp.

She is setting the agenda and the rest are eating her dust.

About Graham

Graham Thomson is an Edmonton-based political commentator.

He is best known as a writer for the Edmonton Journal where he spent 25 years, almost all of them helping readers make sense of Alberta politics. Graham quit The Journal in September of 2018. But he did not quit the news media.

He is still writing about politics, still analyzing, still opining, still thanking politicians for providing so much humour.

Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, Graham has two daughters, two sons-in-law, three grandchildren, and one Wheaten Terrier.