Somebody said to me that before I moved on to another romantic relationship, I’d have to find myself. I thought, what nonsense. I know who I am. But it’s true. I needed to become comfortable with my own company before I was ready to move on. And I enjoyed being a single girl.
This time next year, the crucial factor won’t be whether we have a new leader by October or December, but whether we have the right leader in place—someone who can rebuild the trust we’ve lost.
If we don’t recover the voters we deliberately, and arrogantly, spurned, we will turn the Conservative Party into the 21st-century version of the 20th-century Liberal Party.