Tory MPs are in meltdown
standing in front of what appeared to be an enormous gravestone with his own pledges engraved on it. In 2017,insisting that “nothing has changed” after she announced and then tried to change a hugely unpopular policy on social care.commemorations in France early. Initially, the Prime Minister’s absence in line-ups with Joe Biden and Emmanuel Macron raised a few eyebrows.
The D-Day snub would have been a campaign-changer even if the Conservatives had been riding high in the polls and all their candidates were ardent Sunak fans. But it crystallises how the party is really faring, and how its MPs feel. For Tory MPs, the first claim underlined a lack of emotional and political IQ that they have long suspected the Prime Minister and his team struggles with. “Rishi just isn’t that good at politics,” is something Conservatives say all the time privately.
Even on this matter, the Conservatives have ended up bogged down in a lengthy fight with the Civil Service on the costings process that in part led to the production of that £2,000 figure. Once again, there seems to be a total lack of perspective about when to step away from something.
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