“Back again? Dear, oh dear” as the King once murmured at the reappearance of one Elizabeth Truss in the purlieu of the Palace. And dear, oh dear, here she was, back again so soon, the Pop Tart of the Tory Right, popping up in the central London toaster, this time for the launch of yet another Tory ginger group. This one is called — optimistically — “Popular Conservatism”, or PopCon for short. And it will be for short.
Just what the country — reeling from the shock of “King has cancer” headlines — wanted, as hundreds of loyal subjects formed an orderly Wimbledon-style queue to register for the one new NHS dental practice that has opened in Bristol.
