Prime Minister Liz Truss (Stefan Rousseau/PA)
(Picture: PA Wire)Looking back at sixties California from the vantage point of murky 1971, Hunter S Thompson climbed a hill in nearby Las Vegas and looked West. "With the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark" he wrote. "That place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.”
That’s how some Tories seemed to feel at their Birmingham conference this year. “I think we’re finished as a movement” worried one member in a Q&A Tuesday evening. Another told the BBC there was “a certain sense of doom” as she arrived. The Conservative party has been in power for over 12 years, and feels a bit out of ideas. It’s not surprising, given years of infighting. Brexit is done, Boris is gone, and austerity trundles on. So what are they for these days?
