Article 4FQ2H It’s hard to imagine. But could this really be the end for the Tories? | Polly Toynbee

It’s hard to imagine. But could this really be the end for the Tories? | Polly Toynbee

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Polly Toynbee
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In its Brexit delirium, the party is tearing itself apart on an election day, its voters rampaging off into the Farage wildwoods

Welcome to an extraordinarily bizarre election day. Pause on the way to the polling station to wonder at the astounding mayhem within our "ruling" party, soliciting votes even while wrenching its leader from Downing Street. We may be so used to the Tory party in meltdown that we forget to be amazed at what is unfolding before our eyes - on election day.

Even allowing for all Andrea Leadsom's fantastical ambitious absurdities, ponder how astonishing it is to see the leader of the house, no less, resigning on election eve just to steal a march on all her improbable leadership competitors. Jeremy Hunt is marching in to see the prime minister in publicly threatening mode - on election day. Forget any sense of decorum towards their party or their country, or the electoral process.

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