When the dual disaster of Boris Johnson and Liz Truss torpedoed the Conservatives’ poll ratings, politics switched to easy mode for the opposition.
Labour insiders always knew the dramatic shift in public opinion towards their party would not last forever. But now Rishi Sunak and Jeremy Hunt have returned much-needed calm to the Tory benches, Labour jitters have begun to set in. “It’s looking increasingly like 1992, rather than 1997,” said one frontbencher of Keir Starmer’s prospects at the next election, despite Labour commanding a 20-point lead in the polls.
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