I’d give a lot to be a fly on the wall the next time that Rishi Sunak and the Tees Valley Mayor, Baron Houchen of High Leven, have a talk.
Then again, it may not be at all cordial, given Lord Houchen’s assessment last week that the Conservatives are in chaos and the ultimate responsibility for that rests with Mr Sunak. Either way, it would be a fascinating exchange on which to eavesdrop, given that one of the participants is the only person the Conservatives have who is a proven winner and the other increasingly looks like being doomed to be one of the party’s greatest losers.
To his credit, Lord Houchen was doing what many in the Cabinet consistently fail to do – giving a straight answer to a question and not making a futile attempt to gloss over what is obvious to everybody. But it was less than helpful to Mr Sunak, especially coming on the same day that an opinion poll put Labour’s lead over the Tories at 30 points – the widest margin since Liz Truss’s premiership imploded when the financial markets were spooked by her disastrous budget in October 2022.
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