From humiliation to annihilation: could this election mean the end of the Tory party as we know it?

From humiliation to annihilation: could this election mean the end of the Tory party as we know it?

Even before the events of last week, the party’s prospects were grim. Now some believe it faces a wipeout that would reshape the UK political landscape

Partly in preparation for the worst, but also as a way of finding hope for the longer term, a book that has not exactly been a UK bestseller has suddenly become popular bedtime reading among British Conservative politicians. It is entitled Full Circle: Death and Resurrection in Canadian Conservative Politics.

Written by the Canadian author and historian Bob Plamondon, it charts the obliteration and near-death experience of the country’s centre-right Progressive Conservative party at the 1993 general election, when it crashed from holding a majority in the Commons to losing all but two seats.

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