Good morning. Last week, Liz Truss said she was prepared to be unpopular, so she’s presumably completely relaxed this morning about a new round of polls that variously show her government 19, 17, 21, and 33 points behind Labour.
33 points! That’s an extinction level event for the Tories, and unlikely to have been improved by the prime minister’s masochism tour of BBC local newsrooms yesterday, a series of car crashes Evel Knievel would have thought a little much. I have a friend who abandoned their new spouse in economy when they got an in-flight upgrade to business class the day after the wedding, and even they had a better honeymoon than this.
