It doesn't seem to be getting any better for Truss. New polls show they are still in 80 seat territory if there were to be a GE now. I don't really believe that but they are definitely in trouble.
She didn't put Gove in her government and he continues to lead opposition to her. Perhaps he refused, or would have.
Their voters ("Labour would be worse", "they're all the same anyway", "Starmer is boring", "Boris is a man of the people") who didn't care about constant lying and venality are definitely concerned about inflation and interest rates. Her and Kwarteng's plans to cut real terms benefits to subsidise £45bn of tax cuts and chuff knows how much for subsidies to the electricity generators area another disaster. On Truss's record, she will also mishandle the "supply side reforms" and it will dawn on their sleepwalking voters that their employment protections are to be further whittled away.
Tory backbenchers who don't have lobbying jobs lined up with banks are deeply concerned that they will be out of a job soon unless they dump her and bring back Sunak, probably their best chance convincing anybody they can get on top of inflation and interest rates.
But they are between the devil and the deep. If they don't dump her they will be unemployed after the GE - she is a terrible speaker, sounds awful, is far too ideological to see sense, and her growth plan requires more immigration so that's the racist vote gone. She can't really change much because she is also controlled by the Brexit extremists who are her only supporters.
OTOH another leadership election will at the very least make the party look incompetent, and unless they change the system then, as one Tory MP said, "the nutter will always win". The Brexit lot just has to ensure that their candidate makes the final two, and the swivel eyes in the local associations will do the rest, again.
If it wasn't for the fact that I fully expect to be at least 25% poorer in 3 years' time I'd be enjoying this. Unfortunately it's a disaster for nearly everybody.
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