RISHI SUNAK bears ultimate responsibility for the Tory Party being mired in chaos, Tees Valley Mayor Ben Houchen said today as an opinion poll indicated a 30-point lead for Labour.
The Tory peer admitted that his party colleagues are “fighting each other like rats in a sack” after a dismal set of local election results a week ago.
However, Lord Houchen, said there was general disaffection with politics among voters, rather than positive support for Labour, so the Conservatives still have a chance to turn things around.
Some thinkers and authors on the right are openly discussing the possibility that the historically successful party of the British ruling class may be exhausted
Once derided by Farage as a ‘fraud,’ Jenrick has defected to Reform, bringing experience and political ruthlessness to the populist right — and raising the unsettling prospect of a Farage-led movement with a seasoned operative pulling the strings, says ANDREW MURRAY
With ‘Your Party’ holding its founding conference in Liverpool this weekend, JEREMY CORBYN speaks to Morning Star editor Ben Chacko about its potential, its priorities — and a few of its controversies too


