Liz Truss has called the policy “profoundly unconservative”. What’s unconservative? Discuss. But what can certainly be said is that it’s illberal and, in this case, Party members line up with individual freedom against government coercion.
Last month Labour was given an eight in ten chance of leading a government after the next election. This month it is only seven in ten – and expectations of a Tory majority are slowly rising.
That’s the joint lowest figure this year – but so small a drop from the August and July findings as to be insignificant.
The 1922 Executive Committee Chairman has established himself on Covid almost as a kind of leader of the internal opposition.