The Tories’ inglorious leadership fight ought to fill Labour with joy Polly Toynbee
The Duke of Wellington, surveying his troops, said he didn’t know what effect the spectacle would have on the enemy, “but, by God, they frighten me”. What’s left of the serious elements of the Conservative party are frightened as they view the battlefield ahead – and they don’t expect to win a Waterloo.
“If the Tories lose the next election, they may well be out of power for a generation,” warns the Spectator’s political editor,
