Britain’s governing Conservative Party suffered heavy losses in local elections, a sign that they could be in real trouble when the country holds a general election at some point later this year. With around a third of the results declared,

The picture for Rishi Sunak has been consistently bleak. If his premiership set out with two aims, steadying the ship of government and reviving Conservative fortunes, it's fair to say he did achieve the first of these. Gone was the rolling psychodrama of Boris Johnson's last few months and Liz Truss's entire vanishingly brief tenure.

There are few policy reasons to change leader, so lack of campaigning nous of PM who ‘can’t do human’ may be only argument