🔴 “People have calmed down, but it’s not because they’re happy – they’re not,” a backbencher said. “They just don’t think it’s worth fighting” ⬇️ Inside Rishi Sunak’s battle to control a Tory party unhappy with everything
But other MPs have warned Mr Sunak not to become complacent. “People have calmed down, but it’s not because they’re happy – they’re not,” a backbencher said. “They just don’t think it’s worth fighting.” Another added: “There’s just a lot of whinging.”
The new Prime Minister has given his party a modest boost in the opinion polls, and his own ratings are just about positive. But most Conservatives still believe they are on course to lose the next election, and even those with hefty majorities are in danger. One MP predicted that anyone with a margin of less than 6-8,000 could be in danger, with even those sitting on a majority of 10,000 – traditionally the marker of a safe seat in the Commons – concerned about their future.
Insiders are particularly concerned about the fate of MPs in the North East, where the Tories scored a number of totemic victories in 2019. “Mr Sunak has so far left much of his policy agenda vague – another factor making MPs antsy. “We don’t know what he really believes – is he letting Hunt run Government, or is Gove in charge?” one senior Conservative said. A source close to the Prime Minister admitted: “We need to start getting some policies out of the door soon.
Some Tories believe the leader should assume he is heading for defeat at the next election and act accordingly, similar to Labour in the run-up to the 2010 election. “You look at what Gordon Brown did, he knew he was going to lose so he started doing things like the 50p tax rate and Equality Act,” an MP said. “That’s what we need to do, we need to start locking things down.”
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