Priti Patel lashes out at the BBC...

Its almost like there was an election due imminently and very likely then a battle for  the soul of the Tory party.  

All politicians are playing games at the moment.  Take all they say with a large spoon of salt.

Playing games? I don't think they're playing games. The Tories are moving to the centre right because they have at long last realised such a move is a vote winner.

'Hard right' lol brilliant. We haven't had a centre right Conservative government for decades let alone hard right. 

Terminology between exactly where the centre is and therefore what is centre right and what is right must be just about the most tedious argument .  Can we just call the two win gs of the Tory party "one nation" and "populist"

On that basis what evidence do you have that moving towards the populists is likely to be electorally popular. Why do you think suddenly doing so just before an election will feel credible to the electorate even if that was electorally popular?

Oh I agree people will say that Sunak suddenly becoming a Conservative is nothing more than election opportunism, and I suspect they are right. But it's working, the polls are closing and people are no longer talking about a Labour landslide. I listened to a discussion this morning in which a Labour commentator suggested a hung parliament is probably more realistic than a Labour landslide. Sunak has at long last become a centre right Conservative, as a result and for the first time in years clear water has appeared between Tory and Labour policy. This is bad news for EU loving, immigrant loving, net zero loving left wing Starmer, and he knows it.   

Red be careful you dont get in by tabloid propaganda.  

There was one poll from Opinium which had Lab at 39% and Con at 29%.  Other polls done the same day or a day or two from Wethink had Lab at 47% and Con at 27% and Techne had Lab at 45% and Con at 27%.  The Tory press highlights every poll that moves in Con direction and ignores another poll from the same organisation which moves the other way.  Time will tell whether the (I agree unconvincing) move towards the populist wing is beneficial or negative to Sunaks tories.  I can see why they have rolled the dice but personally I think it will bit him on the backside.

Realistically the only way the tories can stay in power is if they plus the DUP have a majority between them. That feels unlikely. Personally I would prefer a Lab minority government to a majority but betting market does still seem to be heavily in majority direction. May be a year to go yet, we'll see what happens.

You are not as centre right as you seem to think.