Labour insiders feel Rishi Sunak is “lucky” with the timing of this week’s local elections, with what is likely to be a heavy Conservative defeat drowned out quickly by news of the King’s coronation 📺 singharj reports
And with the threat of a leadership challenge all-but-receded, the Prime Minister will be pleased that potential news of a Tory collapse may go little noticed among many voters.
“I don’t think it will have that much impact as it will be felt by Tory MPs when they return, and they will be in deep gloom,” he told“I do understand why a political party would be disappointed that they won’t get the coverage they would do if they were victorious because of the coronation. “The problem for them is that the photographs on the Friday which would appear in the Saturday papers won’t.”
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