The Shropshire by-election caps a catastrophic month for Britain’s prime minister and the Conservative Party
should have been an easy by-election for Britain’s ruling Conservatives. Neil Shastri-Hurst was a true-blue candidate for a true-blue seat. A surgeon who had served in the army and then retrained as a barrister, he would be found clad in Barbour jacket and tweeds—a fogeyish get-up, perhaps, given his early middle age, but not out of place in the villages and farms he toured, drumming up support.
Mr Johnson’s party has indulged his erratic style of government in the belief that he is an unrivalled campaigner.. A party will tolerate incompetence or unpopularity, but not both. No challenge to Mr Johnson’s party leadership seems imminent. But, said Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, a Tory bigwig, one would materialise if the prime minister doesn’t shape up within three months.
The first reason is evidence that voters are responding to Mr Johnson’s government with not mere dissatisfaction, but distaste. Mr Paterson left parliament in disgrace. In October an inquiry found that he had improperly worked as a lobbyist while serving as an MP, and recommended a 30-day suspension from the Commons. He thought that unfair, as did Mr Johnson, who dragooned his MPs into voting to overturn that decision and to overhaul the committee that made it.
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