The last sprint of this endless election campaign does not make me think there will be any other conclusion than a Labour victory. But it may have moderated the scale of the coming destruction of Tory England.
Events, dear boy… Nigel Farage is now under full-scale Tory media pressure over his enthusiasm for a negotiated settlement with Vladimir Putin on Ukraine. The Daily Mail, whose readers Farage will have wanted to win over, has deployed Boris Johnson to describe his “let’s talk” proposal as “nauseating ahistorical drivel and more Kremlin propaganda”. (Farage, in response, called the former prime minister “a liar and a hypocrite”.) The Daily Telegraph, which has been exceedingly interested in Reform, gave over its letters page on 24 June to disillusioned Tories who are no longer going to back Farage because of his Ukraine position.
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