A fair point - and a test of my observation ages ago that Sunak's the first PM in UK history to take the job thinking it's not the most significant thing he'd do in his working life. They'll lose, he'll eventually shrug it off as a case of him doing the best he could in an impossible situation and his mates in finance and banking will welcome him soon enough into international jobs with astronomical salaries. So, calling an early election to shut the festering rebels up likely doesn't scare him. John Major - by contrast - put his leadership on the line to quiet the "bastards" in the mid-nineties because (then and now) he gives a shit about the fate of the Conservative Party