George Owers

George Owers is a writer and editor. His new book, The Rage of Party: How Whig Versus Tory Made Modern Britain, is out now

The Tory party will never die

A political party widely referred to as ‘the Tories’ has now existed – albeit with some rather serious discontinuities along the way – for just short of 350 years. The rise of Reform and apparently terminal decline of the Tories in the polls, Kemi Badenoch’s widely praised conference speech notwithstanding, has, however, made many start