Tories over a cliff?
The Tories have a bigger problem than Iain Duncan Smith
THAT the crisis now gripping the Conservative Party is as serious as anything which has happened during this dismal decade for the party's fortunes is not in doubt. But the question that Tory MPs are increasingly asking themselves and anyone else prepared to lend a sympathetic ear is altogether more apocalyptic. It is whether the party's decline has now achieved a momentum from which recovery may be impossible.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Tories over a cliff?”
From the November 9th 2002 edition
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