Snapshot of the PM who killed his party

Alex Middleton

DAVID LLOYD GEORGE WAS THE LAST Liberal prime minister. After his defenestration, the Liberal Party shrivelled into factional infighting, quixotic comeback schemes, and ultimate irrelevance. So it is easy to imagine why the now former Conservative MP Damian Collins, currently reeling from an election which has demolished his own parliamentary party, might think the case instructive. Having seen a 2019 majority of over 20,000 handily overturned by Labour in his constituency of Folkestone and Hythe, Collins must now be wondering whether the Conservatives are destined for the same fate. That this is not, in fact, the theme of his book makes it a bit of a missed opportunity. Governing political parties do not really die in Britain. Lloyd George is the only person ever to have killed one. It may…

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