Tories Wage the Worst Campaign in Living Memory: Martin Ivens

Half the Cabinet, minus Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, joined donors at the Tory summer party at London’s elite Hurlingham Club on Thursday night. Amid the gathering political gloom, bigwigs made an early dash for the exit, although the host for the evening, Home Secretary James Cleverly, strutted his stuff on the dance floor. Attending as a guest, I had a sense of history in the making — waltzing in the ballroom on the Titanic as it began to sink.

Britain’s Conservatives, the most successful, durable political party in the West that has governed the UK for two-thirds of the last century, is ...