The knives have been out for David Cameron today. The Sunday Telegraph splashed on Priti Patel saying that he is too rich to care about immigration; the Sunday Times on a letter to the PM, signed by Boris Johnson and Michael Gove, calling his failure on the migration target ‘corrosive of public trust in politics’. And the Sunday Times quoted a Tory MP saying ‘I don’t want to stab the prime minister in the back — I want to stab him in the front so I can see the expression on his face… You’d have to twist the knife, though, because we want it back for [George] Osborne’. Yikes!
The morning’s papers were just the start. Backbencher Andrew Bridgen has been doling out soundbites about Cameron being ‘finished’ and he said ‘whatever the result [of the referendum], I believe his position will be untenable’. Then on ITV’s Peston on Sunday Nadine Dorries said that Cameron has ‘lied profoundly’ during the campaign and because of that ‘trust has been absolutely shattered in both David Cameron and George Osborne in the Conservative Party’.
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