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What do the Tories stand for now?

After yet another long and difficult week in the premiership of Boris Johnson, Conservative MPs returned to their constituencies wondering what on earth they would say to voters back home. “I just have to talk about what I have done for my area and try not to mention what is going on here [at Westminster],” said one former minister. “It is the only way I have any chance of winning next time.”

Last Wednesday, the senior civil servant Sue Gray published her damning verdict on Partygate. “The senior leadership at the centre,

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