'This doesn’t feel like a seat with a 23,000 majority' - Week #6 Part One, and how Sunak’s last ditch effort to scare voters went horribly awry

Witnessing the Conservative Party squabbling over who would become leader in Rishi Sunak’s wake was always one of the most unedifying sights. Especially considering they were doing it in real-time.

The eagerness to take advantage of a weakened situation, coupled with such a lack of respect or decorum, made the desire to replace Rishi Sunak, or even discuss the possibility of who might replace him after the election, feel akin to vultures circling to pick at the remains of an animal even though it was not yet dead. 

There was a cold opportunism at the heart of these operations, and yet, most jarring and disorienting idea was that anybody could discuss this kind of operation so openly at all, and with such normalcy even as Sunak remained while the fate of many of the hopefuls remained uncertain.