Three Conservative backbenchers, and then most damagingly the recently resigned Health Secretary, told the Prime Minister it was time to go.
Completing the regeneration of Longbridge would be a powerful example of Conservative policy actively “levelling up” the economy.
That’s the biggest Tory revolt so far on a virus-related division, and enough potentially to defeat the Government in future.
This decision reiterates the political importance of the UK’s cities to our party – and we must aim for a blue-led council in 2022.
Both men sit broadly on the centre-right of the Parliamentary Party. That there is no candidate from the centre-left is a sign of internal change.
People were tired of MPs talking tough, and delivering little change. But all that has changed with the Home Secretary’s new measures.