The author compares politics to a game of snakes and ladders, but demonstrates that it is actually far harder than that.
Superior pundits fail to see the Prime Minister’s debt to Disraeli, and consider Johnson such a scoundrel they underestimate his chances of success.
It’s unclear whether Leadsom is saying a) the Times doctored the transcript or b) its reporting is irresponsible or c) she believed her remarks were made “off the record”.
The man in charge of home affairs policy for the ’22 says that Macmillan and Macleod are his inspiration.