Peter Riddle says that while the prime minister blusters on, it is the rest of us who will experience the slow bleed of increasing prices and taxes, while Geoff Reid is concerned about who will replace him
Nesrine Malik colourfully describes the protracted demise of Boris Johnson as a “slow bleed, rather than an immediate fall” (This government has been built on a fantasy. Restoring reality will cost the Tories dear, 7 February). She rightly suggests that because the Conservative party narrative is built on lies, it will reframe the prime minister’s lies and allow him to live another day, and then another, and yet another.
Those of us who have written to our local Conservative MPs about our distress at partygate and the flouting of rules seem to all have received replies with common phrases indicating that action is being taken to improve the operation at No 10. Not one word of contrition or recognition of the prime minister’s individual failings and personal responsibility.
