And now the end is near. Barring a polling error of galactic proportions, we are hours away from the final nemesis of the Tory government. It is 14 years since Cameron and Clegg invited the press into the Downing Street garden to reveal that the coalition would ‘give our country the strong, stable and decisive leadership we need’.
As Rishi Sunak prepares to vacate the Downing Street premises on Friday, he will probably be looking about and having one of those moments so simply but so accurately captured by ABBA in ‘Knowing Me, Knowing You’. ‘We just have to face it, this time we’re through.’
All of that groping, sacking and stabbing. What was it all for?
There’ll surely be another consideration weighing on him. Fourteen years. The bedroom tax and the pasty tax. The three baskets. The backstop, meaningful votes, ‘austerity’, levelling up, the common rulebook, the Northern Powerhouse, tiers. All of that groping, sacking and stabbing.
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