The enemies of Rishi Sunak are unnamed, but you can probably guess them from their promises: one source told the Mail on Sunday that they were planning an “Advent calendar of shit” to destabilise the prime minister. What would that look like? Robert Jenrick sabre-rattling that Rwanda didn’t go far enough one day; rumours of a Boris Johnson comeback – yes, as actual PM – the day after; “friends” of Jacob Rees-Mogg doing a ring-round to canvass support for a putsch the next? Yup, that sounds pretty Adventy.
Blue-on-blue attacks are never that – there is always an intermediary, some group upon whom the opponent has not been tough enough. So we can expect a daily cascade of nonsense, in which people are in poverty because universal credit is too high, or the NHS is in crisis because doctors are lazy, or culture is broken because transgender people exist.
