Tory party’s future is in peril

Attempts have been made to introduce other important political issues onto the agenda but these have all failed, such is the dominance of Brexit and the turmoil it has created throughout Westminster and beyond.

To suggest the Conservative Party is sailing through placid waters would be totally false. Indeed, many people suspect it is heading for the rocks and disaster. Others have suggested that before - and yet the Tories have come through, if not smiling then at least reasonably intact. But this time it looks for real; the Tories really are heading for potential disaster.

It has to be said that although Theresa May will not go down in history as one of our great Prime Ministers, at least she managed to keep her party reasonably intact. But under Boris Johnson, the Tories appear to be involved in an act of self-molestation before our very eyes. Boris’ brother Jo, a junior minister, who takes a diametrically opposite view on Brexit to his brother, is to quit the Government and leave politics altogether at the next General Election.

Meanwhile, Johnson has suffered another severe blow by the resignation of the so-called ‘queen of flip-flops’ and one of the most familiar faces in the Theresa May Government, Amber Rudd. She has had more than enough and regards the Government’s actions as ‘political vandalism’.

How long the Tories can last in this state is a matter for conjecture but there is little doubt that at the moment, they are on a downward slide. Brexit has changed the face of British politics and it’s not over yet by any manner of means. So watch this space.

- Things are at least marginally better in the Labour party, but not much.

Even Jeremy Corbyn’s brother Piers has taken against him over Brexit, and there are also plenty of signs of deep discontent in the Labour camp about Corbyn’s leadership. Rarely has Parliament been in such tumult and it will take at least a General Election to sort out the shambles.