So David Cameron is the new John Major, is he? The Tory party is once again an electoral basket case, is it? Well, I remember the Major government – perhaps rather better than a lot of the youngsters now making slap-dash comparisons between then and now. Believe me, this is nothing like then. In the final years of the Major era, the tawdry embarrassments of government ministers were rarely out of the headlines: sex scandals were followed by revelations of political incompetence, and those were followed by more sex scandals. The running of the country was generally regarded as beyond parody, although parody of it was a flourishing industry.
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