While the Conservative Party conference was in session, Grant Shapps, the transport secretary, gave an interview to the Financial Times in which he said, with reference to HS2: “We want to make sure we get trains to Leeds in a way that actually benefits people on the network and not blindly follow some plan invented 15 to 20 years ago which no longer benefits people.”

Tory failure to scrap the BBC licence fee is another nail in the party’s coffin
This Ponzi scheme of the airwaves stopped being viable many years ago.