(Bloomberg) Rishi Sunak’s critics on the right of his Conservative Party have set their sights on elections for two open UK parliamentary seats next month as a key moment in their effort to replace him as prime minister.Most Read from BloombergPutin Sends US Signal on Ukraine Talks, Seeing War AdvantageGiuliani Lists Yankees Loot, Trump Claim as Assets in BankruptcyMacKenzie Scott Pares Her Amazon Stake by $10 BillionTrump Ordered to Pay $83.3 Million for Defaming CarrollTrafigura Tanker Carr
Tory nerves have been fraying for months. But with the publication of a survey predicting the loss of nearly 200 seats, funded (apparently to the tune of £40,000) by the so-far-so-mysterious “Conservative Britain Alliance”, there’s a serious risk of full-blown panic setting in.
Losses in Wellingborough and Kingswood - especially if accompanied by a surge in support for the Reform Party - would spell further misery for the beleaguered PM
When Nadine Dorries published The Plot last November, she set out her argument that the Tories have been controlled for 20 years by a shadowy cabal that decided when to topple their leaders.
Could 2024 become remembered for the British people ‘hurling the findings of the opinion polls back into the faces of the pollsters,’ as Times’ journalist George Clarke wrote following the Tories’ shock win in 1970?