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By Mikey Smith Tory MPs are starting to eye up a May election to “stop the bleeding” and ensure embattled Rishi Sunak can limp as far as the campaign without being ousted, it’s understood. Conservative HQ has stepped up online attack stunts against Labour, with morale among MPs taking a battering from by-election drubbings and polls suggesting the party will be “obliterated” at the next election. Meanwhile it’s claimed a senior Tory warned the PM in December that a “flurry” of letters of no confidence had been sent in, and urged him to “get out and talk to people” to get jittery MPs back on si…

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