Four Chancellors and a Funeral: How to Lose a Country in Ten Days

The sequel nobody wants. After a decade of the Tories, could it get any worse? Spoiler - it does.

Towards the end of 2021, Britain had been frogmarched into an escalating series of surreal calamities. Brexit was a disaster, the NHS was in crisis, the government was bathed head-to-toe in impropriety, senior Tories were still acting as though the public purse was their personal feed-trough, and the air crackled with anger about PartyGate. All of which led to an inglorious start to 2022: the ye...