Conservative MPs are increasingly gloomy about their chances of avoiding a humiliating triple defeat at this week’s byelections – warning that a wipe-out will leave Rishi Sunak facing another round of infighting.
Many Tories now expect defeat in all three of the contests – Uxbridge, Selby and Somerton and Frome – sparked by Boris Johnson’s departure and the exit of David Warburton after his admission to taking cocaine.
