U.K. election could be an extinction-level event for the Tories

Tories feel betrayed by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. Why throw away their last half-year in power when the numbers look so bad now? Something might have turned up.

Right now the opinion polls predict a catastrophic defeat on July 4 for Britain’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Conservative Party. The party’s real task in the near term is mere survival, writes Gwynne Dyer.U.K. PMO photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

May 29, 2024

LONDON, U.K.—“Why did he do it? We were all told it would be the autumn, and we were hoping by then we could turn things around. It is very perplexing,” said a former cabinet minister after Britain’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak called a surprise election for July 4.

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