At final the Tories have acknowledged that David Cameron’s appointees operated a failed system of party governanceAll political parties attract practitioners of the dim arts like the disgraced Tory aide Mark Clarke, whose reckless and bullying style got so out of hand that the young activist Elliott Johnson said he was being forced into suicide by it. Mr Clarke has now been expelled from the party for life. But there are three respects in which the contemporary Conservative party is particularly vulnerable to the damage that a man like this has done. Related: Elliott Johnson: the young Tory destroyed by the party he loved Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com