Rishi Sunak has just shown exactly why the Tories are doomed

Rishi Sunak has just shown exactly why the Tories are doomed

The Conservative Party developed many vices towards the end of its 14 years in power, but one of the most damaging must be its modern fixation on “unity”. Perhaps that sounds odd – after all, isn’t the old saying is that divided parties won’t win? But there is no contradiction: the Tories’ problem is that by the end, the were so divided that the only way to maintain at least an outward appearance of unity was to lapse into something close to par…