THE FUTURE OF TORYISM DOES NOT LIEin books. This, at least, is what these four volumes suggest. One is an account, more or less, of his times by a member of the lobby, another is as bitter and silly a collection of essays as has been published this century, and the truly worthwhile book, Danny Kruger’s Cove nant, is really about the good book. Theresa May’s The Abuse of Power merely reminds us how much she wasted hers — and will your precious time too, if you read this worthless yet petulant thing.
Ben Riley-Smith’s The Right to Rule, about the #13Years of Conservative government, sets out what happened. The Case for the Centre Right, edited by David Gauke, inadvertently explains why “liberal Conservatives” couldn’t stop it and don’t understand how they helped it happen. Kruger’s Covenant convincingly explains what this meant. And although Riley-Smith defends himself by saying his account is of key moments only, the selection is erratic and the absences puzzling.
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