The Tory party’s travails represent a considerable opportunity,but only whether the opposition presents itself as strong and unitedIn a distinctively Conservative context, Michael Heseltine has posed an principal question for all those who reject the doctrinaire extremes. The most principal liberal Tory of the Thatcher era asked this week whether the national interest of preventing or softening Brexit should override any partisan anxiety about what a Jeremy Corbyn government might mean. You do not have to be a pro-European Conservative like Heseltine to see that the reply to that question is now yes.
Heseltines dilemma is an academic one at present. Corbyn may have said recently that he expects Labour to be in power by the terminate of 2018. Yet that seems unlikely. The problem is not that Labour might not win a general election in 2018. whether there is one, and Labours chances of winning it are reasonably high. The problem is that there is an obstacle: the Fixed-term Parliaments Act.
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Source: guardian.co.uk