THE shine really has come off the Tories after 14 years in power when our sitting Tory MP Simon Hoare pens an article slating the Tory critics of the Commons Privilege Committee for daring to find ex-PM Boris Johnson culpable and ending up being called a ‘kangaroo court’ by several prominent Tories for their conclusion!

I have met Simon Hoare several times and have always found him to be courteous and helpful, so why the signs of civil war within their ranks?

Perhaps it is the dithering over the departure of the Justice Secretary and Deputy PM Dominic Raab, who was found to have been a bully throughout his past ministerial career over several civil service departments, and yet the PM, Rishi Sunak, just could not bring himself to wield the governmental knife to his main political ally.

Or maybe it is because the former PM, Liz Truss – remember her? – just will not lie down and accept her political denouement. She was recently giving the Margaret Thatcher lecture in the United States where she claimed she will be proved right and that her policies were ‘opposed by a conspiracy of all her domestic political opponents and the IMF, the EU and even the American President, Joe Biden’.

I am sure Rishi Sunak wishes she would lock herself in a darkened room for some time to cool off – rather like her sacked Chancellor, (Kame) Kwasi Kwarteng. By the way, does he still receive his MP’s salary while he is in purdah?

Meanwhile ‘Cruella’ Suella Braverman, the Home Secretary, still believes the utter chaos seen at Dover over the past Bank Holiday was nothing to do with Brexit. Even a prominent Tory Party apparatchik apologised for this ridiculous lapse of sanity. She came second in her public spat with Gary Lineker and now she appears to be alienating the voters who backed Brexit but are now having second thoughts as it has turned out to be such a disaster!

Perhaps if Rishi Sunak were to have his attention drawn to the case for the striking junior doctors, nurses, teachers and all the other public service workers whose wages and salaries are falling so far behind the food price index of almost 20%, instead of always claiming that his policy is to ‘reduce inflation’, then he might be able to restore some sanity to his failing Government.

All of the above can only lead to a Labour win at the next General Election and the installation of a Keir Starmer government.