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Are sleaze scandals and lax standards undermining your platform of “professionalism”? Are your MPs depressed and anxious about their long-term futures? Is the feeling of forthcoming electoral annihilation leaving said MPs myopic about a predecessor’s indiscretions? The symptoms, I’m afraid, amount to a malignant case of “long Boris”. The thinking behind “long Boris” — a… Read more »
In politics there are few more damning charges than that of “weakness”. This familiar jibe has hung ominously over a number of ailing premierships — especially that of John Major, who was characterised as “weak, weak, weak” by then-leader of the opposition Tony Blair. Back in 1997, this stinging defenestration chimed with the prevailing view… Read more »
