Good morning. The murmurs began in May, after the Conservative party’s extraordinary wipeout in the local elections: the 200-year-old Tory party, the most electorally successful party in British history, is dying.
Nigel Farage, having broken the grip Britain’s two main political parties held over the country, claimed Reform’s gains were the “beginning of the end” for the Tories. Justine Greening, a former Conservative Cabinet minister, went further, writing in the Guardian that the party was as dead as Monty Python’s famous parrot. “It has ceased to be,” she said, decrying what she described as its strategy of trying to out-Reform Reform.
