News have been speculating about plans to remove the prime minister this week, and rebels are whispering about letters of no confidence being written to Sir Graham Brady, the shop steward of the backbenchers.
For this week’s Electoral Dysfunction, however, the question is whether the prime minister has progressed from being “embattled” to something much worse. The motto of Ruth Davidson’s leadership philosophy is “Embattled is one away from beleaguered, and once you’re beleaguered, you’re f***ed.”
As we delved into the topic that has been engulfing Washington this week, we found ourselves going back to that missive on this week’s Electoral Dysfunction recording: How much difficulties does Sunak actually have?
“And as is almost always the case, when you actually face people down that are agitating for you to go, they are a bit of a paper tiger.”
However, this PM’s danger zone is never far away.
As soon as he sent his MPs home for the week (they return on Monday for one final day of work before the Easter break), he received two extremely unfavorable pieces of news: According to data from the Home Office, over 500 migrants arrived on Wednesday in tiny boats, creating a new daily record for 2024 and an increase in crossings of 10% over the same period in 2023.
