The Tories are over. Whether you ask voters or pollsters, or even party apparatchiks, it’s not a question of if but when. Everyone agrees, and everything bears the death spiral out. The question is what the party might still do to stay in power. Josh White, on the crisis of the Conservatives, and why Rishi Sunak is profoundly unsuited to his role. No life preservers for this oligarch. If it weren’t so tragic, it’d be funny. That’s the state of UK politics for you. 

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