Voices: Can Rishi defuse the timebomb ticking under his party? Theresa knows…
Anyone remember Theresa May? Tory prime minister destroyed by factionalism? Sound familiar?
Rational, policy orientated, methodical, hard-working and thus not unlike our present incumbent, she too had the wrong skill-set, shall we say, for the party crises of her time. She simply could not comprehend just how nihilistic and disloyal her own MPs could be. Rishi Sunak, who was a newly elected MP at the time, can’t have imagined that he would be going through much the same psychodrama as May endured for too long. He too finds himself trying to lead an unleadable party. It never ends well.
You may vaguely recall the nervy knife-edge votes of
