Spare us from feeble, timid Tories. At times, the party’s MPs are so afraid of what the Guardian or their daft teenage kids might say they forget they are supposed to be conservative. Take the party’s laggard attitude to months of protests; or the total disaster of the Channel migrant boats crisis; or mimsying about with the universities freedom of speech bill. Do they really think this approach is going to win them the next election?
Remarkably, there’s something even worse than mere squirming incompetence and conflict avoidance: the airy nonchalance of a certain strain of Tory MP. Even MPs touted as future leadership hopefuls are guilty.
Rishi Sunak is falling into the trap too
Alicia Kearns, the leader of the Foreign Affairs committee, has tabled an amendment on ‘LGBTQ+’ rights to the Online Safety Bill (I long to see a legal definition of that +). Gillian Keegan, the Education Secretary, was exposed as breathtakingly lightly informed when she Jim Hackered her way through a recent committee hearing.
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