Rightwing editors know there is a limit to how far they dare take the public for fools
The Tories woke this morning to survey the wreckage in their own press, where they find the state of their party and its leader as trashed as No 10’s garden was reported to be after that 20 May bash.
The few stalwarts praising the prime minister’s non-remorse today will be of small comfort to him, given their ranks include Ann Widdecombe and Patrick O’Flynn of the Express, while another of their ilk, the Telegraph’s Allison Pearson, has jumped ship altogether. “Never again will these idiots take us for fools,” she writes.
Polly Toynbee is a Guardian columnist
