The advice from Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton, the former prime minister who is enjoying his political resurrection as foreign secretary, was born of experience.
“I spent five years as leader of the opposition,” he told the new chairman of the Conservative Party, Richard Holden. “If we go back into opposition, there is nothing that we can actually do. One day in government is better than a year in opposition.”
Rishi Sunak had a similar, albeit blunter, message at a meeting of the 1922 Committee of backbenchers after publishing his emergency legislation to force through his Rwanda deal. “Unite or die,” he said, repeating the warning he gave to MPs when he came to power just over a year ago in the wake of
