Among the many gloomy statistics hanging over the Conservative conference in Birmingham this week, one stood out. “One in six of our voters won’t be alive at the next election,” Robert Jenrick, the frontrunner to be the next Tory leader, declared. Grey-haired party members shifted awkwardly. “No one in this hall, of course,” Jenrick quickly added.
Not that there were that many Tory voters in the first place. The party crashed to its worst defeat in its history at the UK general…
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