Tory MPs are furious at Boris Johnson’s continued mishandling of the Covid pandemic. Just when the nation needs a Winston Churchill to save us from an enemy, one says what we have is a bungling Captain Mainwaring.
And the PM’s cackhanded Cabinet is not much better – less crack troops and more a fumbling Home Guard. Save one. Rishi Sunak has had a meteoric rise to the second most powerful job in the land.
And he’s increasingly being seen as a better candidate for leader – he scored 37 per cent against his boss’s 28 per cent in poll of voters yesterday.
But his supporters know it will take fancy footwork to force out a leader with an 80-seat majority. The PM’s backbech troops have been expressing their anger as: Britain faces 100 deaths a