The pre-election Conservative Party conference manages to be both noisy and subdued. The autumnal gloom has set in, there's a pervasive sense that defeat looms and that sense makes defeat more likely.

It is true that Sunak inherited a nightmare, but why has he failed to rise to the challenge?

All this from Steve Richards, plus more brilliant questions and notices for the Rock N Roll Politics co-operative.

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