This is the accumulation of 14 years of deferring difficult decisions
Every faction will have its self-serving and unhelpful version of events: it was Boris, or getting rid of Boris; it was doing Brexit, or not doing Brexit properly
When the dust has settled, there will be a Conservative leadership contest. At the heart of it will be one question: We have for decades postponed or abandoned investment in essential infrastructure from power plants and railways to reservoirs, as a result of which we now have avoidable drought and among the highest domestic energy prices in Europe, with obvious implications for both the cost of living crisis and sectors such as manufacturing.
The big question for the Conservative Party is how quickly it can face up to this. As Paul Goodman, the former editor ofput it recently, the most important division in the party right now is not between Left and Right, or Leave and Remain, but serious and unserious.
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