Boris Johnson makes opening statement at the Benefits Committee hearing Photo: AFP
Forget the cost of living crisis, the National Health Service or small boats —the biggest obstacle currently standing in the way of the Tories' re-election next year is themselves. blue on blue attack that will make Sir Keir Starmer chuckle at bedtime at night.
It's an iron rule of politics that divided parties don't win elections and the report will be a key exhibit in the Labor leader's ever-growing evidence package against the party of Rishi Sunak.
In truth, the prickly comments from people like Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg and Dame Priti Patel, mostly about the committee being nothing more than a kangaroo court, amounted to little more than what the Australian team Ashes would call a sled. .
But under the legally trained hand of Harriet Harman KC, who chairs the committee, every sarcastic tweet, every scathing comment in GB News has been framed as a crime against democracy itself.
Her great triumph was to turn the Tory-majority committee into a tool of the Labor high command, skillfully bringing conservative factions into the public arena where they could tear each other apart.
Harriet Harman, Chairman of the Privileges Committee Photo: House of Commons/UK Parliament/PA Wire
Sir Bernard Jenkin, Sir Charles Walker, Alberto Costa and Andy Carter are now considered quislings by Johnsonites in the Conservative Party as they have resisted calls to resign from the committee.
Sir Bernard is now the subject of legal proceedings. an information campaign about his alleged attendance at an anti-quarantine party during the pandemic, coordinated not by Labor but by his enemies in his own party.
Not for the first time, Sir Keir has reason to believe that all he has to do to become prime minister in 2024 is sit back, avoid serious mistakes, and wait for the conservatives to self-destruct.
< p > Election strategists believe that all of the political issues that currently fill Mr. Sunak's inbox could be resolved in the year or so he left before the election was called.
They remain convinced that inflation will come down, that the cost-of-living crisis will ease, and that migrant flows to Rwanda will start, despite the recent setback in the Court of Appeal.
By showing that he can deliver on his five promises, they think Mr. Sunak can earn the right to present the positive vision for the country's future that many Conservative MPs are currently calling for. But they also know that none of these things will mean anything if Conservative MPs continue to spend most of their energy fighting each other.
The conviction of Nadine Dorris, Lord Goldsmith, Mark Jenkinson, Michael Fabricant, Brendan Clark-Smith, Andrea Jenkins, Sir Jacob and Dame Preity by a Tory privileges committee follows Boris Johnson's peerage and knighthood quarrels. .
Jacob Rees-Mogg in the stands of the Second Test between England and Australia at Lord's Credit: Peter Cziborra/Reuters
The fierce campaigns to oust Mr Johnson and then Liz Truss, his successor, have left open wounds in the Tory party that will never heal.
Mr. Sunak faces two ominous by-election losses following the resignations of Mr. Johnson and his ally Nigel Adams.
Internal recriminations continue because of the messy competition to find a candidate for the post of mayor of London. It seems likely that more disgruntled Conservative MPs will vacate their seats when the 2024 elections begin.
Meanwhile, Sir Keir has slowly but steadily built up discipline within his own party, ridding it of entrenched anti-Semitism. under Jeremy Corbyn (and the expulsion of Mr. Corbyn in the process), purging the far-left Momentum of the party machine and marginalizing the most radical voices.
He will soon be shuffling his first bench to prepare it for the upcoming campaign.
Convincing the electorate that any party deserves a fifth term in office is something that no one has yet succeeded in doing. one prime minister. If Mr. Sunak and his whips don't find a way to unite the conservatives, he can't count on breaking that record.
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