Might Rishi Sunak’s ongoing political Golgotha swing the likelihood of an early election? Two answers suggest themselves in the wake of the “Jenrick moment” — the abrupt resignation of Sunak’s immigration minister over the delivery (or not) of the “Rwanda plan” and a press conference at which a plainly furious PM pointed out to his party’s Right wing that the only way to keep the deal intact was to deliver it without threatening to leave the European Convention on Human Rights.
The explosive resignation of a former ally is a warning that Sunak’s political management of his ministerial ranks is faltering, from an already low base. To be forced into sacking a home secretary (Suella Braverman) one month and lose an immigration minister the next brings home to even casual consumers of Westminster dramas that the Government’s main enemy appears to be itself.
