After months of tedium, Sunday newsrooms everywhere rejoiced at Robert Jenrick’s resignation on Wednesday night. Finally, a return to the greatest hits: Tory splits and fevered speculation of a leadership contest. Leading the way is the Mail on Sunday which brings news of yet another food-themed conspiracy. Boris Johnson saw off the ‘pork pie plot’ but Rishi Sunak is reportedly facing the ‘pasta plotters’ who are ‘cooking up a scheme’ to oust him at a Covent Garden Italian eaterie. Penne Mordaunt for leader, anyone?
The paper declares tonight that a ‘determined cabal of MPs and political strategists’ have been meeting at the legendary Giovanni’s restaurant, a stone’s throw away from Westminster. There they have been busy turning a torrent of headlines damaging to the Prime Minister, previously described as a ‘grid of shit’, into ‘an advent calendar of shit’. Talk about a festive twist on regicide. One of the Giovanni’s plotters is apparently ‘open about wanting to “crash” Sunak’s administration in order to install a new leader’ before the election – but ‘admits to having no idea how it will happen or who should take over’.
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