A bruising few weeks for the government ends, inevitably, with an uneasy truce. Slowly the speculation about Conservative coups, plots and putsches has subsided. Predictably, the rebels’ latest gambit, to tempt party moderates with the prospect of a Penny Mordaunt premiership, melted upon contact with reality.  So it was left to Rishi Sunak at the … Continue reading Sunak’s moment of maximum danger may still await — the Reform-Conservative crossover