The Party's Over - Phil Burton-Cartledge

Today, it is not a question of if, but when? What we are watching is the collapse of the most successful political party in Europe. Despite winning the December 2019 General Election, the parliamentary conservative and unionist party is facing its own demise.
It no longer speaks for,
or to, the British people. Its leadership has sacrificed the
long-standing commitment to the Union to 'Get Brexit
Done'. And beyond this, it is an intellectual vacuum, propped up by
half-baked doctrine and magical thinking. Burton-Cartlege's account starts with the Thatcher era, and show that swiftly the party struggled to find a popular vision for the
United Kingdom. He charts the flaws an failings of each successive leader, all the way to Sunak. He also examines the state of the membership and shows that they have become
increasingly old. Their values have not been adopted by the younger
voters, who are unable to share the benefits. Furthermore, the coalition between the countryside and the City interests is
under pressure, and the latter is split by Brexit.