Britain is not a one-party state: we have multiple parties and free elections. But it certainly feels like one. For 11 mostly miserable years the country has been governed by Conservatives of one stripe or another, and the chances of Keir Starmer’s Labour preventing them winning a fifth consecutive victory at the next general election look microscopically tiny.
Boris Johnson’s administration is uniquely divisive, dishonest, destructive and, at times, downright incompetent. It has presided over the deadliest catastrophe since the Second World War. It has amassed a vast national debt. It could well precipitate the break-up of the United Kingdom. Despite all of that, Labour still trails the Tories by 13 percentage points, and Starmer lags fully 17 points behind Johnson on the question of who would be the best prime minister.
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