Intelligent Conservatives must surely know that they should soon change course before their retrograde, fanatical party collides with the rocks, says Guardian columnist John Harris
, the only serious contender who has appeared to offer anything radical, seems to want post-Thatcher Toryism to be taken to its logical conclusion, whereby government does no more than the “essentials”; although the politicians in charge of it must also guard against anything in the culture deemed unsound .
In 1983, the Tories’ support among the 18-24s who voted came in at just over 40%; by 2019, that had nearly halved. Some of this is down to the fact that free-market economics has completely failed younger people, but there are other shifts at work.
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