Philip Collins
(Picture: Daniel Hambury)The Conservative Party is now treating the office of Prime Minister like a game of pinata at a children’s party. One child after another comes up to the package and smashes it with a stick. Eventually, every child gets a go. Little more than a month after the party made the error of choosing Liz Truss to be its latest leader, the Prime Minister is in serious trouble. She may survive the time it takes to write this column and maybe even the time it takes to read it. But her colleagues have given up on her.
The only barrier to the Conservative Party getting rid of its fourth Prime Minister in six years is that the identity of the fifth is not obvious. The MPs do not trust the party members who have returned the wrong answer twice in a row now, preferring Boris Johnson over Jeremy Hunt and Liz Truss over Rishi Sunak. Brexit has made Tory politics nasty and tribal. It is a terrible weakness of the Truss Cabinet that it is staffed almost exclusively by low-quality Brexiteers yet that toxic division might also be her friend.
