The prime minister said yesterday that he was not "distracted" by his personal ratings lingering at record lows. He refused to rule out calling a July general election amid mounting rumours that unruly MPs will attempt to oust him if the West Midlands mayor, Andy Street, and the Tees Valley mayor, Ben Houchen, are defeated on Thursday.
The defection of the former Conservative health minister Dr Dan Poulter to Labour on Saturday and the potential loss of half the party's councillors later this week could cause rebellious Tories to defy Sunak's authority and go over the line with letters of no confidence.
On Saturday night Poulter dramatically quit the Conservatives because he said the party was "failing" the NHS and had become a "nationalist party of the right".
The part-time mental health doctor in an NHS hospital told the Observer he could no longer "look my NHS colleagues in the eye" as a Conservative, noting "the only cure [for the NHS] is a Labour government".
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هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة April 29, 2024 من The Guardian.
ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 8500 مجلة وصحيفة.
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