ON 13 DECEMBER 2019, the morning after Boris Johnson’s landslide, an historic fifth term in office for the Conservatives seemed all but assured. You could probably have counted the number of people who really thought Labour could return to government in a single parliament on the fingers of your third hand.
Today, Sir Keir Starmer’s path to Downing Street looks almost equally assured. Boris Johnson’s premiership collapsed last summer, having squandered its political capital on a string of self-inflicted scandals. Liz Truss’s kamikaze sprint for tax
