Latest updates: business secretary hints that government may avoid rebellion over windfarms by giving in while row grows over Albanian asylum seekers
Good morning. Rishi Sunak has only been prime minister for about a month, but already he is learing that a large part of his job consists of playing whac-a-mole with Tory party rebellions.
All party leaders face backbench rebellions from time to time but, with its poll ratings still in landslide defeat territory and MPs rushing for the post-parliament lifeboats, the Conservative party is more ungovernable than usual.
Continue reading…Latest updates: business secretary hints that government may avoid rebellion over windfarms by giving in while row grows over Albanian asylum seekersGood morning. Rishi Sunak has only been prime minister for about a month, but already he is learing that a large part of his job consists of playing whac-a-mole with Tory party rebellions.All party leaders face backbench rebellions from time to time but, with its poll ratings still in landslide defeat territory and MPs rushing for the post-parliament lifeboats, the Conservative party is more ungovernable than usual. Continue reading…