Conservative fears of a
downward spiral
The fuss
around Boris Johnson is the symptom not the cause. The problem that is
increasingly on people's minds at this grisly conference is that the Tories
might be only at the start of a decline, which becomes impossible to escape.
One former minister says, "there is a smell of decay", another, that
it is "hopeless, but we are resigned to the nightmare". Cabinet
ministers fret that Theresa May simply doesn't have the ideas or imagination to
reboot either her leadership or their party.
But in government and on the backbenches and in
Manchester, optimism is a minority view. Stopping the slide the priority. The
fear here is not really that Boris Johnson is grabbing all the attention, it's
that this party could be dying inside, and it finds itself with a leader who
might struggle to stop the downward spiral I mean.
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