“None of us sitting within the press gallery had been anticipating it,” Kiran Stacey, the Guardian’s political correspondent, tells Helen Pidd.
On Wednesday, as Rishi Sunak went into the Commons for PMQs, he realised that his get together was one other MP down. Natalie Elphicke had crossed the ground to hitch the Labour get together, the second MP to take action in 10 days.
The Conservatives took heavy native election losses final week and at the moment are trailing by 30 factors within the newest YouGov ballot. What choices does Sunak have?
Kiran explains what these losses imply for the prime minister, and appears at what calculation Keir Starmer made in taking in a rightwing Tory. Do latest occasions give us an perception into how the following normal election will go?
“Rishi Sunak has been speaking about the potential for a hung parliament this week, utilizing the native election outcomes to attempt to gee up his Tory MPs,” Kiran tells Helen. “However simply as he’s doing that we see a brand new ballot out on Thursday from YouGov displaying Labour now has a 30-point lead within the nationwide polls.”
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