In the battle for boring, how will Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer control outspoken MPs? ✍️ Many of the new intake view themselves as having their own brand – which makes the job of the chief whip harder 🔵 katyballs
He can’t say he didn’t warn us. Since then, No 10 have ramped up their efforts to take politics off the front page – with some success as the World Cup has started to dominate. In a bid to keep it this way, Downing Street has reduced the number of media rounds each week and attempted to limit the time of any ministerial morning interview to a mere eight minutes. “We need not feed the beast,” insists a minister.
While Labour still lead comfortably in the polls, the view in senior Tory circles is that the path to success – whether that’s avoiding political extinction or winning a fifth term – rests on taking the drama away from the day-to-day. As for Labour, even Starmer’s promises of change come with a heavy tablespoon of caution. His Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves views restoring faith in fiscal competence as a more important aim than exciting voters. “It’s not the worst thing in the word for Labour to look cautious on the economy,” admits a Tory MP – looking on nervously.
Even though senior figures in both parties sense a lack of public appetite for high drama, it’s not always in the control of the leader. Sunak continues to face a restive party – used to raising their voices when things go wrong.s, the number of Tory rebellions since shows that there is still plenty of appetite in the parliamentary party to stick one’s head above the parapet.
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