Rishi Sunak. Photo: Andrew Parsons/ NO 10/CC
Rishi Sunak. Photo: Andrew Parsons/ NO 10/CC

Ask most people if they are happy with Tory leader Rishi Sunak and the response is likely to contain expletives. Ask most Tory councillors, and they are unhappy too – 65%, according to one poll.

Have they seen the light? Are they fed up of carrying out endless cutbacks to local services? Do they think it’s wrong that the rich keep getting richer and we pay the price?

No. 47% think he is too left wing!

Rotten Reform

Some Tories have already jumped ship to right-wing Reform UK. Its leader had to tell its prospective candidates: “For heaven’s sake, if you’re going to have a glass of wine on a Friday night then don’t use social media, it’s not sensible”.

Five in a week have been suspended for making disgusting racist and sexist comments.

Vote TUSC

We need a real alternative – a new mass party of the working class. That’s why we are helping to plant a flag in the 2 May local elections, standing candidates as part of the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition.