Disraeli’s impudence and audacity, demonstrated in this collection of his sayings, cast light on the present Prime Minister’s conduct.
The Conservative victory in the general election of 2019, on a promise to Get Brexit Done, was a crushing defeat for them.
The latter will make much of the Government’s Constitution, Democracy & Rights Commission – promised in the Conservative Manifesto.
Many of those who self-identify as being on the Left also back key Conservative policies.
It is a reversion to the old tribal idea: this people good, that people bad. It challenges the notion that we are all individuals, responsible for our own behaviour.
The former may have won a battle, but the latter will win the war. Diverse, inclusive, victimhood culture is the future.
Only one in three Party members, according to our poll, are unambiguously lined up behind the idea.
If Boris Johnson now gives real political substance to what has become an overused catch-phrase, he will recreate the Tories in the image of “ Honest Stan” Baldwin.
The scale of his domestic ambitions and the legacy of the Iraq War suggest that his ambitions will be limited – for the moment at least.
In this new political battle, the greatest tension will not be left v right or even fiscal
doves v economic hawks. It will be a battle between creativity and convention.
Here is a Tory Democrat who with sublime impertinence has stolen the socialists’ clothes.
Its future is not yet in the bag, but it has made a remarkably assured start. Much now depends on the genius of its editors.
Johnson’s election manifesto promised to remove the Fixed-term Parliaments Act, among other pledges.