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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Senior Tories attempted to rally behind an increasingly beleaguered Rishi Sunak on Saturday night amid claims that some Conservative MPs are plotting to replace him with Penny Mordaunt before the next general election.
Former cabinet ministers Jacob Rees-Mogg and David Davis went public to denounce the idea as “mad” and “bonkers”, as did senior backbenchers, including former vice-chair of the 1922 Committee Sir Charles Walker.
Mordaunt made no public comment about the claims but her supporters said she was not party to, or aware of, any such plot, and that she believed the stories were an attempt by her detractors on the right to damage any potential challenge she may make in future, after a Tory election defeat.
Another senior Tory said: “Perhaps the only thing more ridiculous is the idea that everyone would magically accept Saint Penny, despite her very obvious limitations and frankly bizarre views on gender issues.”
The fact, however, that such rumours are surfacing reflects an increasingly febrile atmosphere within the party, and a growing sense of desperation about the prospect of impending electoral disaster after 14 years in power.
In an interview with the Observer, Ed Davey, the Liberal Democrat leader, said before his party’s spring conference this weekend that it was shaping up to be a “once in a generation election” where the Conservatives would be unable to patch things up.
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