'But, but... I did a thing. Didn't they notice? Did they even see?' - the Conservatives are still failing to reset the agenda

Being able to placate a party whose members’ fundamental, backwards intransigence dictates, among other things, that the world is 6,000 years old is a tall order. 

But somehow - Rishi Sunak managed to do that last week by negotiating with the DUP and enabling them to return power-sharing to Northern Ireland. 

Sunak should get credit for this; Sunak should think of this as some kind of success - a pivot, perhaps, towards better and brighter things where the polls are concerned for the seemingly permanently embattled Conservative Party.

Yet - 

It is unlikely. 

There are multiple reasons.