Armed with platters of picnic food from a posh butchers in his constituency, Rishi Sunak attempted to rally his MPs at a gathering in the Downing Street garden on Monday night.
But rather than pork pies from the Yorkshire Dales, it is a different kind of red meat his increasingly restless backbenchers are hungry for.
After getting a kicking in the local elections, many want the PM responsible for the highest tax burden since World War Two to stop talking about how he wants to cut taxes and actually get on with it.
