Emeritus Prof Christopher May on Nostr: As Michael Gove joins the nearly quarter of Tory MPs standing down at the election, ...

As Michael Gove joins the nearly quarter of Tory MPs standing down at the election, the joke that 'would the last person leaving the Tory party please turn off the lights' seems to be ever more apposite.

For many Gove's departure will be welcome, but it also reinforces the notion that the post-election Tory party may be very different from its most recent manifestation.

The Q. will be, will they swing further to the right, shift to the 'centre', of collapse into fragments?

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