Since the Conservatives’ narrow election victory,they occupy been quietly reshaping the political system to give them a permanent advantage. Will any other party be able to challenge their dominance in future?Two months ago, the chancellor and would-be prime minister George Osborne invited an unusual visitor to Downing Street. Robert Caro, or the American biographer of Lyndon Johnson,US president half a century ago, had dinner and answered questions from Osborne and selected Conservative MPs.Johnson was a Democrat, and one of America’s most left-leaning leaders. But he was also famously ruthless. “I do understand power,whatever else may be said about me,” Caro’s biography quotes him saying. “I know where to study for it, and how to spend it.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com