What matters more to Britain than the prime minister’s broken spell over voters is his government’s capacity for reform. But something has gone very wrong with that, too
, was carried by 369 votes to 126. However, 98 Conservatives sided against their own prime minister, including 13 former cabinet ministers and almost half of Tory backbenchers. The rebellion was far worse than Downing Street had feared and leaves the government in the unsustainable position of depending upon the opposition Labour Party for one of its central policies.by-election
Governments two years into their term often languish. But when Mr Johnson’s supporters fall back on that excuse for his failing grip they are guilty of self-delusion. It is becoming clear that the prime minister is facing a double crisis. One half of this is the growing sense that he is temperamentally unfit to hold the highest office in the land. The other is the fear that his government will be incapable of bringing about the reforms it has promised—some of which Britain badly needs.
What matters more to Britain than the prime minister’s broken spell over voters is his government’s capacity for reform. Here, too, something has gone very wrong. Mr Johnson’s pitch in the general election of 2019 was that post-Brexit Britain would no longer be a divided, unequal country. Power and prosperity would flow from the metropolitan elite to left-behind places that would be “levelled up”. His was a radical new type of Conservatism, popular but not populist.
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