Think back three years. Boris Johnson had not only won an election with a sound majority. There were arguments that it could turn into a watershed. Jeremy Corbyn’s prime ministerial ambitions were over, to the heartfelt relief of many Tories. Bur for Labour, what would happen next? Rarely has a leadership candidate seemed more inevitable than Keir Starmer. Just as rarely, inevitability had no reinforcement from enthusiasm. It was faute de mieux, with all faute and little mieux.
Time for a change: Do the Tories stand a chance against such a potent political motto?
Instead of trying to claim that everything is splendid, the Conservatives should immediately concede that many aspects of public life aren’t working well – and that government does not have all the answers.
