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Prime Minister Boris Johnson reads a statement outside 10 Downing Street, London, formally resigning as Conservative Party leader. Picture date: Thursday July 7, 2022.
RELIEF and jubilation were natural reactions to the news that the Conservative revolt against Boris Johnson had succeeded in securing his resignation as Prime Minister today.
Unfortunately it is far too soon for either. We are entering an even more dangerous phase of an administration that has proved utterly self-serving from day one.
An administration that — for all the fine words of resigning grandees Sajid Javid and Rishi Sunak earlier in the week — treated the international emergency of the pandemic simply as an opportunity to enrich their own friends and families while tens of thousands died.
Once derided by Farage as a ‘fraud,’ Jenrick has defected to Reform, bringing experience and political ruthlessness to the populist right — and raising the unsettling prospect of a Farage-led movement with a seasoned operative pulling the strings, says ANDREW MURRAY
Starmer sabotaged Labour with his second referendum campaign, mobilising a liberal backlash that sincerely felt progressive ideals were at stake — but the EU was then and is now an entity Britain should have nothing to do with, explains NICK WRIGHT
While Reform poses as a workers’ party, a credible left alternative rooted in working-class communities would expose their sham — and Corbyn’s stature will be crucial to its appeal, argues CHELLEY RYAN
MARTIN HALL passes time in the sanguine company of a traditional conservative, recalling their disastrous governments