Intellectual exhaustion and rampant sleaze often characterise parties which have been squatting on power for too long
The Tories are responding to heavy losses with a mixture of fear and complacency. Fear among those MPs anxious that the formula that delivered victory in 2019 is disintegrating. Complacency among those who reckon these elections don’t mean much. Rather than reflect on why so many colleagues in local government have just lost their seats, Johnson loyalists prefer to mock Labour’s performance while expressing glee that Sir Keir isby Durham police for an alleged lockdown breach.
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