Feuding parties never win, No 10’s flailing political guru, Isaac Levido, warned rebellious MPs last week. Though the prime minister’s position is already so pitiful that Tuesday’s rebellion by 61 of his MPs could hardly shift his dial any lower.
The bill passed. The question is, what next? The best hope, devoutly prayed for, lies with the Lords blocking or delaying it: a delay is as good as a block, with time running out. By that, I mean that’s the best hope for Rishi Sunak and his government. Not, of course, through any moral repugnance at having to carry it out, but because everyone knows this fantasia of a policy needs to stay in the realms of political miasma, where it was born.
