Sunak struggling as Tory vultures circle
RISHI SUNAK struggled to save his precarious premiership today as cantankerous Conservative MPs once again mustered for mutiny.
With Tories increasingly convinced they are staring electoral annihilation in the face, rumours of yet another leadership switch — offering voters the fourth leader in two years — swept Westminster.
Fifty-three Tory MPs have to demand a leadership vote for one to be triggered, and it is believed that as many as 40 have already written to Graham Brady, chairman of the backbench 1922 committee, expressing no confidence in Mr Sunak.
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