For those convinced that you never lose in politics, because either you win or you learn from your failures, have a look at the Labour Party and Jeremy Corbyn. ‘Delusion’ doesn’t do justice to the past four years, the Brexit referendum and the last election, in which Corbyn led the official opposition against dysfunctional, misfiring, failing, inept and divided Tory administrations.
In power for a decade, the Conservative Party is seeking a fourth win in a row at a general election. There should be hesitancy and concern. Why? Because what the Tories are defending makes for grim reading.
Recent Tory governments have instigated a misjudged regime of austerity, supervised near-static growth, indulged in civil war and attritional infighting, and been disowned by leading figures who once shaped their party’s identity, including a former prime minister.
