Tories Wage the Worst Election Campaign in Living Memory
The party of government is reduced to pleading with the voters not to give Labour a supermajority.
Not feeling great.
Photographer: Leon Neal/Getty Images EuropeHalf the Cabinet, minus Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, joined donors at the Tory summer party at London’s elite Hurlingham Club on Thursday night. Amid the gathering political gloom, bigwigs made an early dash for the exit, although the host for the evening, Home Secretary James Cleverly, strutted his stuff on the dance floor. Attending as a guest, I had a sense of history in the making — waltzing in the ballroom on the Titanic as it began to sink.
Britain’s Conservatives, the most successful, durable political party in the West that has governed the UK for two-thirds of the last century, is facing an unprecedented wipeout on July 4. Either that, or a large number of pollsters will be looking for new jobs on July 5.