‘Electoral oblivion’: The national feeling has been consistent for a while now, and the reasons are obvious to everybody - except Rishi Sunak
You know Sunak is plunging further into the depths of whatever proverbial abyss he currently occupies by promoting Jonathan Gullis, which in itself was an attempt to stymie a revolt from the people who want to replace him with former home secretary Priti Patel as Prime Minister.
That's the predicament Rishi Sunak found himself in by the end of last week after the government quietly slipped out a new batch of questionable political honours just before the Easter holidays, when it was hoping nobody would see, and was left ruling out a pre-election arrangement with Reform UK for it not to stand in the next election.
For anybody with a modicum of interest in politics - and for anybody who has been observing the decline of the Conservative Party [essentially the raison d’etre for this page over the last 3 years in particular] - those two opening paragraphs should say everything about the sense of desperation within the Conservative Party.