For any voters who have tuned into recent prime minister’s questions, Labour’s attack lines have been consistent and brutal. Rishi Sunak is weak; he lives in terror of his backbenchers; he is, to use Keir Starmer’s retro-dessert reference this week: a “blancmange”.
One thing is clear. For the head of a government that still enjoys a healthy 60-plus majority in the Commons, Sunak is curiously unable to tell his MPs what to do.
