Even in its current state of infighting and disarray, the government is still in charge. As parliament goes back to work, the reality that we’re still lumbered with damaging Conservative rule, except now a more blundering version, is going to sink in, hard. So while this government limps on, botching Brexit, out of touch and out of ideas, what can Labour do to hasten its rivals’ demise? The party keeps rising in the polls. In the week following Theresa May’s assertion that she’d lead her party into the next election, Labour steamed ahead to 43% in one poll against 38% for the Conservatives. It seems that if there were a vote any time soon, Britain would boot the Tories out of office.
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