Rishi Sunak has been warned by his party that the Conservatives are heading for a disastrous general election defeat – as “desperate” Tory MPs called for urgent changes to be made in an effort to halt Sir Keir Starmer’s path to No 10.
As Labour overturned a 20,000 majority in a historic by-election victory while the Liberal Democrats took another safe Tory seat, a former Conservative cabinet minister told The Independent: “The party’s over.”
