Plop! That was the sound of another rat leaving the sinking Tory ship as Nadine Dorries announced on her Talk TV show that she will quit parliament at the next election.
The former Culture Secretary and unashamed Boris Johnson fan joins a lengthening list of departing Tory MPs who have read the writing on the wall and know that inevitable defeat and years in opposition await after their appointment with the voters next year.
The only remaining question is the size of that defeat: will it simply be a narrow victory for Sir Keir Starmer’s reinvigorated Labour party? Or a wipeout on the scale of Tony Blair’s 1997 New Labour landslide that left the Tories out of power for more than a decade?
It is not only the wider public who have fallen out of love with the party
The omens don’t look good for the Tories.
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