Growing disillusionment and despondency among MPs has left them looking for the exit
By Friday, Sunak was dealt an even more damaging blow when his– up until then a loyal servant to the Government – had announced he was quitting and standing down as an MP.
, for others it is simply jumping before the inevitable happens, such is the disillusionment among MPs about the party’s prospects under Sunak. The Anderson row was swiftly overshadowed, however, by Downing Street’s failure to get ahead of a row over the party’s biggest donor Frank Hester, who had been accused of saying Diane Abbott made him want to “hate all black women” and that she “should be shot”.
But for others the news is likely to have been nothing but a disappointment. One Whitehall source toldthat a minister had been crossing fingers for a May election. “They will obviously campaign for the party, but they just want to get out and move on and do something else,” the insider said. Danger signs for No 10 started flashing earlier this week when the speculation began percolating that a “flurry” of no confidence letters had been submitted to 1922 Committee chair Sir Graham Brady. Talk is now rife among certain Tory quarters that a move against the Prime Minister is inevitable.
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