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It was a fortnight ago in the dingy basement of a dive bar in Soho that the Tory Party's fate was sealed. As the 80s hit Don't Stop Believin' blared, a No 10 adviser and topTory rebel eyed each other warily.
When the Labour shadow cabinet meets every week, it is not uncommon for it to be shown a deck of slides spelling out election shocks of the recent past.
You know that things are bad when the only viable option is as superlatively deranged as it is logically unavoidable. And yet, such is the predicament of the Tories. The very idea that the party could jettison its leader – the fourth in five years – mere months before an election seems beyond bonkers. Under Rishi Sunak, the Tories are merely disdained as chronically inept; another leadership psychodrama could see them spurned as clinically unstable. But if the party is to stave off an extinction
That 2019 alliance of traditional Conservative MPs and Red Wall converts is crumbling, and the party descends further into factionalism by the day.
Lee Anderson joining Reform UK is a bigger moment than the rise of Ukip, Nigel Farage has said.