Local elections were bleak for the Tories – but all is not lost for Rishi Sunak [Video]

Last ditch Rishi

DESPITE understandable attempts to spin the results, last week’s elections were — if not totally catastrophic — bleak indeed for the Tories.

Holding on to Harlow council in Essex while failing in London and losing Birmingham is not anyone’s idea of ballot box success.

But there are three themes that have emerged which do offer Rishi Sunak a way back.

Firstly, no one is queuing up to give Sir Keir Starmer a landslide.

Labour has clearly not yet proved it has sufficiently changed or that Starmer can be entirely trusted.

He needs both to seal the deal with the electorate.

Secondly, a significant chunk of Britain seems heartily sick of the incessant infighting which has blighted the Tories since the fall of Boris Johnson.

Thirdly, there is a rising and bitter resentment in the country that neither Tories …