A week of Tory rebellions and cataclysmic polls has left members of U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak¡¯s governing party plumbing new depths of despair over their prospects of staying in power at a general election in the next year.
The Conservatives have trailed far behind the opposition Labour Party in polling for more than a year, leading to internal debates about whether they are headed for defeat on the scale of the 1997 landslide, or a comeback on par with 1992. Foreign Secretary David Cameron this week likened the position to 2015, when he squeaked out a majority as prime minister.
But recent events have some looking at a darker portent from Canada three decades ago. In 1993, the center-right Progressive Conservatives were pincered between the center-left and populist right, suffering the worst ever result by a governing party in the Western world, losing almost all their seats.
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