‘Divided Parties Don’t Win Elections’ - the one where Sunak tried to make noise to disguise Tory Party infighting
One of the tragedies of Rishi Sunak is that there’s a perception - often perpetuated by the man himself - that we should sympathise with him because he has somehow inadvertently, or by way of some unfortunate accident, fallen into the role of Prime Minister, and has inherited the problems leftover from the Ghosts of Prime Ministers past.
The problem with perpetuating this idea is that - for the last nearly 3 years, Sunak has been building momentum as part of his ‘brand’ so that he could eventually set the stage to become Prime Minister.
I know this because I’ve been writing about it for the last [nearly] 3 years - historically, this page was one of the first to point at Sunak's ambition.
The cold opportunism of Rishi Sunak is one of the factors that has led him to having so many enemies within the Conservatives when he became Prime Minister, however - especially from within two separate factions of Conservative MPs; spoken about on this page over the last few articles as a process of saying, “look!”
Obviously, blaming these two factions for virtually all of the problems Sunak implies that he has been left with to tidy up will endear him to those who maintain their support for the figureheads.
On one hand, you have the Conservative Democratic Organisation; allies of Boris Johnson who retain the belief that he should still occupy 10 Downing Street.
On the other, you have the Conservative Growth Group: essentially, a free-market cult of MPs that retain the belief that Liz Truss’ budget was the venture capitalist equivalent of a stone inscription etched by the finger of God.
Both pose a threat to Sunak being able to deliver on his government’s agenda into the foreseeable future. The Conservative Growth Group, however, by this page’s humble estimations, provides the most threat.