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Tees Valley mayor Ben Houchen says Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is to blame for Tory 'chaos'

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Rishi Sunak bears ultimate responsibility for a Tory party mired in chaos, Tees Valley mayor Ben Houchen said as a poll indicated a 30-point lead for Labour.

Lord Houchen said the Conservatives are 'fighting each other like rats in a sack' and the blame for the party's difficulties 'ultimately lies with Rishi'. Lord Houchen held on in Tees Valley in a rare bright spot in an otherwise dismal set of local election results for the Conservatives a week ago. He told BBC Radio Tees: 'Things don't look great for the Conservative Party at the moment. There is still a way through but that way through is getting narrower by the day.

The scale of the difficulties facing Mr Sunak was underlined by a YouGov poll for The Times which showed Labour on 48% and the Tories on 18% - just five points ahead of Reform UK among people who said they would vote and expressed a preference. The poll gave Labour its biggest lead since Liz Truss was in office in October 2022, the newspaper said.

 

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