Another great column from perhaps the best writer without a column.
https://twitter.com/sime0nstylites/status/1469339914185719820
One thing I might add is that there is an ideological angle to this. Boris Johnson is not really a conservative. The party tolerate this on pragmatic grounds Provided he is a personal electoral asset.
Big state dirigism can be swallowed if it is going to win. But if not nostalgia for low tax conservatism might reassert itself.
You might argue that the big state dirigism is a structural necessity now and a new candidate will face it as squarely as Johnson. Even if so that might not prevent a few twitches of the free market Tory corpse. (In the form of a coup).
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