‘You can’t rule out a complete panicked meltdown’: Tories fear wipeout after another disastrous week

MP Mark Menzies, left, with Rishi Sunak, was suspended last week over an alleged late-night phone call to a former aide demanding £5,000 to pay ‘bad people’ holding him in his flat.MP Mark Menzies, left, with Rishi Sunak, was suspended last week over an alleged late-night phone call to a former aide demanding £5,000 to pay ‘bad people’ holding him in his flat.

The party is concentrating fire on areas that will be critical in the general election, with the likes of Milton Keynes, Dudley and Thurrock all in its sights. But it also hopes to pull off surprises in some true blue heartlands.

Internal focus groups and polling have suggested it has increased fears among pensioners over what that means for the state pension, the NHS and for their children and grandchildren. It also raises the unfortunate comparison with While early election rumours refuse to go away, fanned by a Labour hierarchy desperate for one to be called, there is a theory among Tory MPs that the possibility of a summer election is being used by Downing Street as a threat to keep unruly colleagues on their toes and in line.

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