{"id":39542,"date":"2023-11-25T07:59:09","date_gmt":"2023-11-25T07:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/miamiheatnation.com\/?p=39542"},"modified":"2023-11-25T07:59:09","modified_gmt":"2023-11-25T07:59:09","slug":"rishi-sunak-is-in-the-death-throes-as-pm-and-his-own-mps-know-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miamiheatnation.com\/politics\/rishi-sunak-is-in-the-death-throes-as-pm-and-his-own-mps-know-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Rishi Sunak is in the death throes as PM \u2013 and his own MPs know it"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rishi Sunak uses a hammer during a visit to Leeds<\/h3>\n

Over lunch last week, a Conservative veteran parliamentarian of long experience briefly, but brutally summed up the current predicament of his party.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re totally and utterly f***ed!\u201d he said, adding: \u201cI can tell you my family all plan to vote Reform UK.\u201d<\/p>\n

An hour later a Conservative Red Wall MP was sharing similar sentiments over a cup of tea.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just don\u2019t see how we can turn it around.\u201d<\/p>\n

The gloom and despondency among scores of Conservative MPs is very real.<\/p>\n

READ MORE: <\/strong> Tories ‘in death spiral’ – Autumn Statement made ‘awful’ poll ratings even worse<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Yet this was after a fortnight of two major events – first a reshuffle and then this week\u2019s Autumn Statement \u2013 which were supposed to launch the fightback.<\/p>\n

The poll results, which were already bad, tell us a different story.<\/p>\n

The Techne UK findings for Express.co.uk over the last two weeks have shown that remarkably the Conservatives have lost even more ground to Labour as a result of Mr Sunak\u2019s attempts to turn things around.<\/p>\n

The reshuffle week saw Labour\u2019s lead increase from 21 points to 24 points and then this week in the polling taken after the Autumn Statement it went up another point to 25.<\/p>\n

So, despite the protection of the triple lock on pensions, the National Insurance contributions cut, help for businesses and self-employed, the Tories actually lost more ground from an already awful position.<\/p>\n

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