Devastating defeats give Tory MPs more reasons to fear what will befall them when the country delivers its verdict
Rishi Sunak in Teesside. The re-election of Ben Houchen as Tees Valley mayor was a rare bright light for the prime minister on a bruising day of election results.Rishi Sunak in Teesside. The re-election of Ben Houchen as Tees Valley mayor was a rare bright light for the prime minister on a bruising day of election results.The mayoral elections demonstrated that there is a way to win for a Conservative. This is to make out that you have nothing to do with the Tories.
In the immediate wake of Friday’s results, some of the insurrectionists sounded like they were giving up, and loyalist ministers started to declare that the prime minister was safe in his job, at least until the voters get their hands on him. But that was before Saturday brought the Tory-deflating result from London and the Tory-stunning outcome in the West Midlands.
Conservative hopes that they might make a close-run thing of London were revealed to be a fantasy when the result came in on Saturday afternoon., who they expected to cling on as mayor of the West Midlands, being defeated in an area packed with swing parliamentary seats. He’d fought his contest not as a Tory, but as “Andy”. His campaign material was in a non-Conservative livery of green and purple.
Rightwing 'red meat' is not in short supply from Mr Sunak, even rightwing voters aren’t finding it appetising
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