Tory civil war is election suicide, PM must unite his party or face hammering at polls

Unite or die

DO the Tories really think voters have one more moment’s patience for their in-fighting?

The public has put up with this psychodrama for years.

It has helped gift Labour a 20-point poll lead.

The Sun gets that some MPs have reservations about the new-look Cabinet.

Many of our readers share their fears about corrosive wokery, the police’s kid-glove treatment of Gaza protests, and that Rishi Sunak’s Government may not truly have the stomach to stop the small boats if the Supreme Court rules against the Rwanda scheme today.

These are not frivolous concerns, as Suella Braverman’s savage resignation letter points out.

Having fired her, the PM would do well to reassure his MPs — and the public — on each score.

And he should rebut some of Suella’s specific charges against him too.

But if Tory plotters think the wisest course is letters of no confidence, the settling of scores against No10 and even a new leader, they have lost their minds.

Ceaseless civil war is election suicide.

Labour shame

IT should still shock Britain that, even after the mass slaughter of 1,200 Jews, the odious Jeremy Corbyn cannot condemn Hamas as a terrorist organisation.

But then we doubt there is any act barbarous enough to alter Corbyn’s entrenched positions, so clinically exposed by Piers Morgan on TV.

In 2009 Corbyn defended his genocidal, anti-Semitic “friends” — whose charter glorifies the murder of Jews — as “dedicated to long-term peace and social justice”.

He plainly still believes it.

What is more shocking, though, than one dim crank is that many on the London marches clearly agree.

Why else would they protest alongside thugs dressed as Jew-hating Hamas terrorists — while excusing the group’s atrocities?

And yet this is perhaps most shocking of all: Keir Starmer may now be firmly in favour of Israel’s right to rout Hamas.

But from 2015 to 2019 he and his colleagues — knowing exactly who and what Corbyn was — fought tooth and nail to make him our Prime Minister.

What does that say about them?

Bitter blow

THE last thing we need is the price of a pint shooting up 20p overnight next week.

Pubs, the lifeblood of our communities, are on their knees due to inflation and the shattered economy.

A huge hike in the cost of beer could finish some off.

Hundreds of jobs will then be in peril, according to the British Beer and Pub Association.

Unless, that is, Jeremy Hunt freezes alcohol duty and extends business rates relief for boozers in Wednesday’s Autumn Statement.

Do it, Chancellor.

Times are hard enough.

Give us, and our pubs, something to raise a glass to.