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As a drowning man, adrift in the middle of the ocean, will thrash about and clutch at anything that might promise safety, so Conservative MPs are frantically looking around for anyone who might be a fresh face and save them from oblivion. This hope is in vain. It comes from a media-driven and short-termist understanding of politics in which personality and presentation are central but that is not what politics is about and the party’s problems cannot be fixed by yet another new face. They...

But Sir Simon Clarke tells the BBC some other Tory MPs privately agree Rishi Sunak should be removed.

There are two viable ways to respond to an existential threat in the state of nature: fight or flight. You either destroy your predator, or you run away. You don’t just stand still, wave a white flag and wait for the end. The same is true in the political jungle, and yet the Tories’ nervous systems are now so dysfunctional that they have produced neither of the rational physiological responses to the terrifying likelihood of a Labour landslide.

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The government wants to send a message to its MPs but is it strong enough to assert its authority?

The PM got a win when his Rwanda bill cleared the Commons, but disquiet is still growing among his MPs.

Sky News has been criticised by Conservative MPs over their edit of footage of Rishi Sunak being challenged by a member of the public.

ANALYSIS: Rishi Sunak has won a major victory and defeated the right of his party meaning he now will almost certainly lead the Tories into the next election.

Rishi Sunak has been hit by new letters of no confidence from Conservative MPs amid fresh questions over his leadership.

Rishi Sunak secured victory on Wednesday as his flagship Rwanda Bill passed the House of Commons after just 11 Tory MPs rebelled by voting against it.