In the end, time caught up with Britain’s Conservatives. Voters turned with vengeance on Thursday against a party unable to escape its own record.
Former chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng said the malaise went far deeper than the havoc caused by his disastrous “mini-Budget” in 2022 that crushed the party’s reputation on the economy: “It’s on the whole party. It’s on 14 years.”
For all of Rishi Sunak’s attempts to insist the election was “about the future”, it is Labour’s Sir Keir Starmer who now owns that political space. He has promised a “decade of renewal”, but the challenges are formidable.
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