Is that it? Is what we saw on ITV’s Sunday night debate really all that the “world’s most successful party” can stump up, in these dying days of its 12-year run in power? Not a whisper of a new idea from any of them, no fresh air.
Yes, hurrah for the most diverse applicants ever, with only one token pale male, but you would have to search in vain for diverse views. Here is only the narcissism of infinitesimally small differences in style, all for tax cuts varying marginally, but not in their state-shrinking intent. That leaves only “character” to fight over: there was the vaunting and boasting of their many qualities, but humility was not among them.
