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Conservative of Conservative governments – not until Boris is Boris again </p> </div> </div> </header> <div class="grid-col grid-col-12 article__layout article__layout--header-meta article__separator"> <div class="article__byline-date article__byline-date--comment"> <span class="e-byline-comment " data-test="byline"> <span class="e-byline-comment__meta e-byline-comment__meta--single" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person" itemprop="author"> <span class="e-byline-comment__details"> <a href="/web/20211009095805/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/a/ak-ao/allison-pearson/" class="e-byline-comment__link e-byline-comment__link--single" rel="author" aria-label="Allison Pearson"> <span class="e-byline-comment__author" itemprop="name" content="Allison Pearson">Allison Pearson</span> </a> <time class="e-published-date u-meta e-byline__date" itemprop="datePublished" datetime="2021-10-05T19:00+0100" data-test="time"> 5 October 2021 • 7:00pm </time> </span> <img class="responsive 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But does Boris agree with Boris?" data-test="article-body-image-source" width="2500" height="1563"/> </picture> <button class="e-caption-trigger " aria-label="Open caption" data-aria-open="Open caption" data-aria-close="Close caption" data-js="caption-trigger" data-test="caption-trigger"> <svg class="e-caption-trigger__icon" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewbox="0 0 20 20"> <path d="M9.375 15V8.75H10.625V15H9.375ZM8.75 6.25L10 5L11.25 6.25L10 7.5L8.75 6.25Z"/> <path d="M10 1.25C12.3125 1.25 14.5625 2.1875 16.1875 3.8125C17.8125 5.4375 18.75 7.6875 18.75 10C18.75 12.3125 17.8125 14.5625 16.1875 16.1875C14.5625 17.8125 12.3125 18.75 10 18.75C7.6875 18.75 5.4375 17.8125 3.8125 16.1875C2.1875 14.5625 1.25 12.3125 1.25 10C1.25 7.6875 2.1875 5.4375 3.8125 3.8125C5.4375 2.1875 7.6875 1.25 10 1.25ZM10 0C4.5 0 0 4.5 0 10C0 15.5 4.5 20 10 20C15.5 20 20 15.5 20 10C20 4.5 15.5 0 10 0Z"/> </svg> </button> </div> <figcaption class="e-caption u-meta e-caption--has-separator e-caption--hide-small-screens " data-js="caption"> <span itemprop="caption" data-test="caption"> We agree with Boris. But does Boris agree with Boris? </span> <span class="e-caption__credit" itemprop="copyrightHolder" data-test="credit"> <span class="e-caption__credit-description">Credit</span>: PAUL ELLIS/AFP via Getty Images </span> </figcaption> </figure> </div> <div class="grid-col grid-col-12 article__layout article__layout--content article__layout--comment "> <div class=" article-body-comment" itemprop="articleBody" data-js="article-body"> <div class="articleBodyText section"> <div class="component article-body-text article-body-text--drop-cap article-body-text--drop-cap-comment " data-test="article-body-text"> <p>Like Jacob Rees-Mogg, I am proud to be “Tory scum”. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20211009095805/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/09/26/angela-rayner-faces-calls-apologise-describing-tories-bunch/">That insult tumbled last week</a> from the effluviant gob of Angela Rayner along with the clapped-out charge that Conservatives are all homophobic, racist, misogynistic and – the sensitive should look away now – Etonians. </p> <p>It’s a pretty strange racist and misogynistic party which assigns two women to the great offices of state, one of whom grew up above her Indian parents’ newsagent. And that the Conservatives have had twice as many female leaders as Labour, whose grand total is a shameful nil. As for homophobia, I seem to recall it was a Tory scum government led by David Cameron which legalised same-sex marriage. Devious blighters, those Old Etonians, with their equality and diversity!</p> <p>You would, however, think it might have occurred to the deputy leader of Her Majesty’s Opposition that quite a few of those despised Tory scum are ex-Labour voters; people her party must woo back if it is ever to have a chance at power again. Watching BBC2’s <em>Blair and Brown: The New Labour Revolution</em>, it was fascinating to be reminded of the pains that Tony Blair took to detoxify his angry, class-war party and make it palatable to Middle England. Educated at Fettes, the Eton of Scotland, Blair had the public-school polish and courtesy that Gobby Angela loathes, but which, ironically, brought her party 13 years in government. Where Rayner sneers, Blair smiled. </p> <p>The Left frequently accuses the Right of “hate speech” but could <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20211009095805/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/10/05/anti-tory-hysteria-getting-hand/">Rayner’s rant have played a part</a> in the appalling assault this week on Sir Iain Duncan Smith outside the conference centre? “Tory scum,” jeered the gang as they tried to <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20211009095805/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/10/04/sir-iain-duncan-smith-condemns-incoherent-morons-alleged-traffic/">hit the former Conservative leader on the head with a traffic cone</a>. Imagine the meltdown on social media if a Labour politician was attacked by yobs spitting oaths which had come out of the mouth of a senior Conservative? </p> <p>The five louts, who were arrested by Manchester police, neither knew nor cared that Sir Iain was the man urging the Prime Minister to keep the £20-a-week uplift to Universal Credit so that claimants can “live with dignity”. Sir Iain’s steadfast compassion makes me glad to be Tory scum. You may doubt that an extra £20 a week makes economic sense, but with further rancid revelations of vast fortunes made from PPE contracts (one swineish beneficiary of government largesse had the cheek to keep his furloughed staff working full time) it is good politics. And Christian charity too if you care about such things, which I do. </p> <p>I also found myself caring yesterday when I heard the <em>Today </em>programme’s Nick Robinson snap “Prime Minister, stop talking!” as if Boris Johnson were some chatterbox schoolboy to be chided, not the country’s democratically-elected leader.</p> <p>I was surprised how much Robinson’s rudeness annoyed me. For the sad truth is my own tribal loyalty has worn very thin this past year. Invited to take part in two panels on the party conference fringe, I declined. What could I possibly say? That I feel dismayed and disenchanted with the Government I was so thrilled to see elected? The night of the December 13 2019 when it became clear that the British people had seen off the Corbynist threat, was a moment of pure, rapturous relief. With a majority of 80, the Johnson cabinet was not only free to deliver Brexit but, unopposed, it would be able to enact the policies we believe are the foundation of a good society. </p> <p>Some 22 months later, it feels like the least Conservative Conservative government of all time. “What the hell are they doing now?” is my almost daily lament. Hang on, aren’t we supposed to be opposed to state intrusion in private life? Aren’t we the ones who trust men and women to make the best decisions for their own families? We don’t agree with squandering taxpayers’ money – do we? – or chucking money at unreformed public services. </p> <p>Surely, Tories exist to cut red tape, not give those tedious jobsworths ever greater licence to push us around. Ours is the party of freedom, not of draconian rules and restrictions. We agree with that fellow who once wrote stirringly in these pages, “If I am ever asked, on the streets of London or in any other venue, public or private, to produce my ID card as evidence that I am who I say I am, when I have done nothing wrong and when I am simply ambling along and breathing God’s fresh air like any other freeborn Englishman, then I will take that card out of my wallet and physically eat it in the presence of whatever emanation of the state has demanded that I produce it.”</p> <p>We agree with Boris. But does Boris agree with Boris? Who is this imposter who hems and haws about introducing vaccine passports to get into nightclubs and football matches? The PM had Covid himself. He must know it gives him excellent immunity so why does he pretend otherwise?</p> <p>He must also be aware that the most vaccine-hesitant people in the country belong to ethnic minorities. Is a Conservative prime minister seriously going to exclude millions of black and Asian Britons from society because they can’t produce an NHS Covid pass on their phone? There’s a name for that. App-artheid. </p> <p>And what is this haste to usher in a Green Industrial Revolution whose windy promises are scarcely credible, its costs calamitous, at a time when the nation is still reeling, our finances knackered? Did you vote for that? I didn’t.</p> </div> </div> <div class="video-player section"> <img class="video-player__placeholder" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20211009095805im_/https://i.ytimg.com/vi/_-ab-bFbGEE/mqdefault.jpg" alt="Placeholder image for youtube video: _-ab-bFbGEE" width="800" height="450"/> <div class="video-player__source" data-test="video" data-video="_-ab-bFbGEE"> </div> </div> <div class="articleBodyText section"> <div class="component article-body-text " data-test="article-body-text"> <p>The things I care about right now are all collateral damage from lockdown – so many people with mental health problems; the thousands of “ghost children” who have disappeared from school registers; pupils more than a year behind; students paying full fees for a remote university education; 12,000 women with undiagnosed breast cancer; horrifying hospital waiting lists; small businesses struggling to get back on their feet; elderly residents of care homes still being treated like diseased livestock and denied basic human rights. Instead of “Build Back Better” it’s time to “Repair, Reflect and Gently Recover”.</p> <p>Yes, I’m aware that a global pandemic derailed things. Boris is not to blame for the fact that he planned to govern as a lovable Falstaff and ended up in the gloomy, prevaricating role of Hamlet. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20211009095805/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2021/10/05/crisis-crisis-anybody-actually-charge/">His nature is more suited to comedy than tragedy.</a> At first, most Conservatives will have given the Government the benefit of the doubt as it wrestled with how to protect citizens from this novel virus. We accepted, perhaps too readily, restrictions which Sir Richard Dearlove, the former head of MI6, said are more excessive than any he had experienced living behind the Iron Curtain during the Cold War.</p> <p>As a Tory supporter, it has been truly shocking to see how reluctant my side is to hand back the precious freedom which is fundamental to our philosophy. Esther McVey, one of the few MPs brave enough to express publicly the doubts which I know many hold privately, says: “Large parts of the establishment seemed to get drunk on that excessive power and control, and are still reluctant to give up the emergency powers they handed to themselves.”</p> <p>Emergency powers so extreme they gave the fiend <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20211009095805/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/09/29/police-officer-exploited-covid-powers-murder-sarah-everard/">Wayne Couzens a pretext to arrest that wonderful young woman Sarah Everard</a> for the crime (astonishingly, it was then considered a crime) of having dinner at a friend’s house and walking home. It’s chilling.</p> <p>A complacent government may smirk at Gobby Angela and think that Conservative voters have nowhere else to go. I wouldn’t count on it. In the Chesham and Amersham by-election, many lifelong Tories supported the Lib Dems or simply refused to vote at all. I hear from people like that all the time. </p> <p>It’s oddly painful, this sense of alienation from the party you believe in but which no longer seems to believe in what you both once believed. Like sitting in another room after a row and longing to rejoin your family next door, but pride and principle hold you back.</p> <p>In his speech at the conference, we are told the Prime Minister plans to tell people to go back to the workplace. More than that, I hope Boris will announce that we must coexist with Covid just as we do with other viruses. (As many Scandinavian countries have done). His government will be issuing no further instructions. Instead, it will rely on freeborn people to breathe God’s fresh air, as that beloved <em>Telegraph </em>columnist once advised, and to make our own judgments about what is best for our families. It would be so good to have Boris be Boris again. We miss him. Instinctively, I will always stick up for Tory scum. 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