Why angry Britain will this week finally dump the Tories
Five PMs, five elections and a three-ring circus: over 14 years, the Conservative government sowed the seeds of its own downfall - and leaves a mixed legacy.
″This election is not a referendum on the past,” Conservative Prime Minister Rishi Sunak declared during a campaign pit stop this week. How he must wish that were true.
His adversary, Labour’s Keir Starmer, has spent the entire six-week election campaign repeating the mantra “14 years of failure”, and invoking the reviled names of former PMs Boris Johnson and Liz Truss, the trashers of the Tory brand.
Hans van LeeuwenJournalistHans van Leeuwen is The Australian Financial Review’s former Europe correspondent. He is now International Economy editor for The Telegraph UK.
