With a civil war looming, Conservatives don’t even seem to know what their party is for, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
The prime minister kept his job but with a civil war looming, Conservatives don’t even seem to know what their party is for
The back-of-a-fag-packet plan for renewal Johnson brandished last minute – promising to sell off housing association properties and axe civil servants – plus his insistence when quizzed on lockdown parties that “I’d do it again” seem only to have hardened resolve.
The lesson of May’s and Margaret Thatcher’s defenestrations is that once the idea of regicide is floated, the end is just a matter of time. That said, this confidence vote is different from the one May survived only to quit five months later.
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