I don’t exactly feel sorry for Rishi Sunak; after all, he supported Boris and Brexit. Given his party’s dismal record in government over the last 14 years, however, selling himself to the electorate was an impossible job. No one should be surprised that he couldn’t do it.
After tomorrow’s bloodletting, what’s left of the Conservative Party will have to decide where it goes next. Recent history tells us that the party is malleable enough to accept leadership from any of the factions; after all, Boris was a Reactionary, David Cameron, Theresa May, and John Major were CDs, Mrs. Thatcher and Liz Truss were CLs, and Rishi is clearly a PBP. So what will happen this time around?
My guess is that, in the short run, you will see an alliance of CLs and Reactionaries running the party. When that doesn’t work, the Conservatives will turn back to the center.