Sunday, June 29, 2003

Leading them into oblivion

The Economist pointed out a couple of weeks' ago that Tony Blair (his election victories an obvious exception) tends to have bad Mays and Junes, but then come the summer months the Tory party implodes, thus by party conference time he is usually back on top.

This time the Tory party seems to be kickin off the shooting-itself-in-the-foot earlier. Only a few days after their first poll lead since 2000, Bruce Anderson says IDS must go.