Britain needs shelter from this absolute Tory shower | William Keegan

From privatisation to Brexit to its current collapse, the damage done by the Conservative party leaves one longing for the past

When thieves fall out, they certainly know how to do it. The sight of former cabinet ministers such as Nadine Dorries slagging off the prime minister, and the home secretary - at the time of writing - plumbing the depths of extreme rightwing prejudice, shows that there are now no depths to which the Conservative party will not sink.

They are desperate, and with reason. The chickens bred during George Osborne's austerity chancellorship, and let out of captivity by Boris Johnson's Brexit, are finally coming home to roost.