One of the less successful rewilding experiments is the fictional reintroduction of DNA-manufactured dinosaurs in the film Jurassic Park. Yet a remake is underway at Westminster, as the likely Liz Truss-led government plots a return of political dinosaurs.
Team Truss has made clear that her front bench will feature the revival of two figures regarded as standard bearers of the Right of the party — John Redwood and the former leader and welfare secretary, Iain Duncan Smith. For those of us who have written on politics for eons, this is, as they say, déjà-vu. Redwood was a formidable, if chilly, intellectual voice on the economic Right-wing who contested the leadership in 1995. “IDS” ran the party in the early 2000s, until fears about his unelectability forced him out. Still, Westminster careers can be a long-running franchise.
