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I think we'll hear a sound of hammering and that will be the last nail in the coffin of the conservative body.

I actually think that the Tories would be in with a better chance if Boris was still leader.

I mean, that's how bad things are.

My view is that we have a force at the half-government who want to resist the mandate that was given by the public to the government in 2019.

Rishi Sunekar's got to where he is, basically by my being good at office politics.

Welcome once again to Planet Normal, the telegraph podcast with Alison Pearson.

Hello.

Hello and me Liam Halligan.

As if there isn't enough going on already, what would the cost of living crisis in war in Ukraine?

Now the Conservatives have embarked on a fully blown identity crisis.

A senior figures break ranks, calling for lower taxes, a smaller state, and the determination finally to tackle the small boats crisis.

It's as if the impact of the local elections two weeks ago, Alison, in which Labour didn't do brilliantly,

but the Tories secured a lower vote share under Rishi Suneck than under Theresa May in 2019, is finally sinking in.

Tories big beasts are now openly campaigning if not for a change of leader, then certainly for a very definite change in the direction of policy.

As millions more are dragged into higher tax brackets, there's a sense that Britain's squeezed middle, the not poor but not rich either masses, who make this country tick, are very much in the firing line.

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