He was a disaster as PM, but without him it’s looking like electoral oblivion for Britain’s ‘natural party of government’, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
He was a disaster as PM, but without him it’s looking like electoral oblivion for Britain’s ‘natural party of government’
When they made him leader, Tory MPs entered into a pact, not a love affair, with Johnson. They set aside misgivings about his moral character because he served a purpose: he was the only Conservative with a populist appeal to see off Nigel Farage and Jeremy Corbyn, andcraved by the Tory Spartans. For a while, Johnson’s rupture with the EU was sufficiently hard to satisfy the cravings of his rightwing flank.
But soon Conservative MPs and the elderly, shire-dwelling Tory membership tired of their prime minister. Not because of his deceit, but because of his lack of Thatcherite zeal. Anyone who succeeded him would have had to prove their commitment to a hardcore economic agenda.
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