The Latest Breaking News from Simon Clarke

Will Dry, who quit his No 10 role last November after becoming dispirited, says his party is ‘heading for most almighty of defeats’

Writing in the Daily Telegraph on Tuesday, Clarke claimed Sunak, who is under increasing pressure after he was dealt a blow to his Rwanda deportation plan in the House of Lords, was "leading the Conservatives into an election where we will be massacred".

If I had to pick my favourite failed coup of the Gordon Brown premiership, it would have to be the Patricia Hewitt-Geoff Hoon plot. It was early January 2010 when the former cabinet ministers called for a secret ballot of Labour MPs to effectively force the prime minister out. 

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A former Tory minister reportedly reveals more discontent about the embattled PM’s leadership, raising the spectre of a future no-confidence vote

Sir Simon Clarke has called on Rishi Sunak to be replaced or warned the Conservatives face an 'election massacre'

Senior Conservatives dismiss former cabinet minister’s intervention as ‘isolated’ and ‘dangerous, reckless, selfish’

Nn 10 hints prime minister would be prepared to have Anderson back, saying ‘we have a lot of time for Lee’

Simon Clarke, who served in Liz Truss’s cabinet, sparks renewed Conservative party infighting