So, it didn’t take long for the recriminations to begin. After Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives were subject to a massive drubbing in this week’s council elections, and were hit with the loss of the West Midlands mayoralty last night, the blame game is well underway.

Former Home Secretary Suella Braverman certainly wasted no time in giving Sunak both barrels. Appearing on Sunday with Lura Kuenssberg, the MP laid into the PM for the disastrous results, and predicted that the party was heading for a wipe-out in the next election, saying:

‘The plan is not working … at this rate we will be lucky to have any Conservative MPs at the next election.’

Mr S imagines the Tories won’t be putting that on election leaflets any time soon…

In the interview, Braverman also accused the PM of essentially fiddling while the country burned, pointing out that the government had spent more time legislating on smoking and pedicabs than trying to fix the health service or social care. She added that it was a ‘disgrace’ that her party was trailing Keir Starmer, who has ‘the charisma of a peanut’.

Braverman admitted that she regretted backing Sunak as leader, but in a small consolation for the PM, argued that it was pointless trying to replace him now:

‘I just don’t think that is a feasible prospect right now, we don’t have enough time and it is impossible for anyone new to come and change our fortunes to be honest. There is no superman or superwoman out there who can do it.’

Still, Mr S isn’t sure Sunak will want to follow all of Braverman’s advice. Writing in the Telegraph she suggested that the hole the party is in was Sunak’s responsibility, and he should, err, ‘start shovelling’. It seems it really is only down from here for the party…

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05.05.2024

So, it didn’t take long for the recriminations to begin. After Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives were subject to a massive drubbing in this week’s council elections, and were hit with the loss of the West Midlands mayoralty last night, the blame game is well underway.

Former Home Secretary Suella Braverman certainly wasted no time in giving Sunak both barrels. Appearing on Sunday with Lura Kuenssberg, the MP laid into the PM for the........

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