"Rishi has to try to kind of suppress the internal rounds that are going on the Conservative Party about this fear or this panic about the polls, etc. that's all he can do."

Damage control could be the only strategy left for Rishi Sunak but there's no sign it will save his political career, say political strategist and former adviser to Boris Johnson Jo Tanner and Emilio Casalicchio from the POLITICO playbook on Pienaar and Friends.

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