“A mid-life obituary can be a gift, a course corrector, and in recent days the Conservativ Party has also had a foretaste of how it might go down in history. With the polls dipping as low as 14 points, obituaries are being written, and they are ugly: incompetence, ineptitude, lying, loafing, recklessness, selfishness, squabbling, careerism-before-country.”

Comment, Clare Foges, The Times 24 Oct 22