‘A very good week to bury very, very bad news’: What else was missed last week as the Tories descended into another self-indulgent internal crisis? Quite a lot, actually.

After two weeks of relentless 'noise,' the Conservatives confront a significant challenge: the majority of people are likely to perceive it all as a hideous distraction.

For all of the ‘noise’ over Liz Truss’ appearance at CPAC, Suella Braverman's comments in the Telegraph, Lee Anderson's comments on GB News and the subsequent fallout and various Tory comms errors since, you'd be forgiven for thinking the country wasn't falling apart and that somehow these things - these mainly internal Tory party ‘things’ - take precedent. 

For most people, they do not. The gulf between the SW1 Bubble and wider public grows.

Actually, contrary to the focus placed by the Conservatives on issues such as conspiratorial ‘Deep State’ intervention and supposed ‘Radical Islamism’, the country is still in a rather fragile and vulnerable state alongside ‘the noise’, and it’s likely that many are just as angry, if not angrier, with the Conservatives following events over the last two weeks as they were before.