He was a disaster as PM, but without him it’s looking like electoral oblivion for Britain’s ‘natural party of government’
This year, the Conservative party made perhaps one of its greatest political errors in nearly two centuries of existence: getting rid of Boris Johnson. Don’t worry, I’m not suddenly getting nostalgic for his wretched premiership. The man clearly deserves an ignominious place in the history books – from the tens of thousands of avoidable deaths because of his bungled handling of the pandemic to his seemingly pathological addiction to deceit.
The question I’m interested in here is about the Tories’ own interests; indeed, Johnson’s dethroning may well consign the party to the electoral wilderness for a generation or more.
