The Tory party has turned into a conservative clown show

The Tory party has turned into a conservative clown show
A critic interrupts the keynote speech of Tory MP Jacob Rees-Mogg (left) at the National Conservatism conference in London this month. (Image: Getty)
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By Adrian WooldridgePolitical parties can survive all sorts of problems and still win elections. They can survive bad leaders. They can survive disastrous local election results. They can even survive economic crises. But, in Britain at least, what they cannot survive is becoming a clown show.This is what happened to Labour under Jeremy Corbyn. Corbyn was a professional protester who had never held ministerial office before being elected party leader. He brought with him a menagerie of oddballs. Seumas Milne, his chief political advis...

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