As the Conservative party stares down the barrel of a likely general election defeat, it’s hardly surprising if it can’t work out what its future might look like. The weirder thing is that the Daily Mail can’t, either.
Never as slavishly loyal to the Tory establishment as its less attentive critics believe, the paper has always had a sharp vision of where the right is heading next – a vision influential enough on government policy for the last 13 years to matter to everyone, not just the party faithful. Today, the choices on the table seem reasonably clear.
