DAN HODGES: How the plot against Rishi really fell apart - and sealed the fate of the party

It was a fortnight ago in the dingy basement of a dive bar in London ’s Soho that the Tory Party’s fate was finally sealed. As the 1980s hit Don’t Stop Believin’ blared out across the Arts Theatre Club, a senior No 10 adviser and leading Tory rebel eyed each other warily.

So the Conservative Party is united. The One Nation Liberals, The Red Wallers, The Spartans, the New Conservatives, The Pop Cons – all are together at last. Marching themselves and their party towards electoral oblivion. Rishi Sunak’s great political reset. His ‘narrative-shifting’ conference speech. The ‘game-changing’ Budget. Each has been... and gone.At the start of the year – the year of the Great Conservative Fightback – Sir Keir Starmer enjoyed an average 18-point poll lead. It has now risen to 21 points.By shelving plans to remove Sunak – a leader who, in the public’s eyes, is performing worse than Liz Truss did – the Conservatives have run up the white flag.Correct. He isn’t Tony Blair.

An attempt to remove refugees to the Bibby Stockholm barge in Dorset ended when the coach taking them was surrounded by a mob and its tyres were slashed. It won’t. A further reduction in National Insurance payments, or even the basic tax rate, has become the PM’s Mrs Merton Policy.

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