The Decade in Tory: The Sunday Times Bestseller: An Inventory of Idiocy from the Coalition to Covid

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Raheem Sterling has admitted he is contemplating a future away from Manchester City and would consider moving abroad. Kenyan police say they have arrested the husband of the distance runner Agnes Tirop, a two-time world championship bronze medallist who was found dead at her home. US Open champion Emma Raducanu has pulled out of this month’s Kremlin Cup, citing a “tournament schedule change”. Cameron Norrie rose to the occasion in one of the biggest matches of his life, obliterating Diego Schwartzman, the 11th seed, 6–0 6-2 to reach his first ever Masters 1000 semi-final at Indian Wells. It's too much to hope for that anyone other than a tax-dodging billionaire with a seat in the House of Lords who still wants to vote Tory will read this and pause for thought, but for the rest of us - and perhaps for more sanguine generations yet to come (assuming the world survives the current iteration of disaster capitalism) - it will serve as a crucial, engaging and clear-eyed testament of how badly wrong a once-decent country can go in the space of a few years when it is led by the most incompetent, venal and cruel group of people you could possibly assemble.

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One service always in the public eye was the NHS. But its 2010 training cuts left it short of 100,000 nurses and doctors. Spending time with the chief executive of Ipswich hospital, we watched as he begged a senior nurse not to leave. Jenny (not her real name), one of his best, brightest and most dedicated nurses, had turned around his difficult chemotherapy ward, caring for seriously ill people feeling at their worst, where deaths of patients exacted a heavy emotional toll on staff. But, taking a deep breath, she told him: “I just can’t keep going.” She would join the nursing bank for occasional shifts, but her departure would add to the 41,000 nurse vacancies. Her team cried when she told them. If you are just pissed off with successive Tory incarnations claiming that they will 'fix Britain' while denying that it was tories that broke it, then this book is for you.

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Kwarteng might be new to some of you, so an intro: he is the former minister for Brexit, then of Business, Energy and Growth. Both Tamworth and Mid Bedfordshire were in the top 100 safest Conservative seats at the last election. Both saw swings of greater than 20% to Labour last night. In a further effort to wipe from our minds the endless squalor and scandal of the Johnson years, her new Chief of Staff features in an FBI bribery investigation, is employed by a lobbying firm and only “seconded” to Number 10, and seems to be using tax-avoiding measures

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The former leader of the Brexit Party, who is a smoker, told ITV’s Good Morning Britain programme: “I am a sinner, yes, I get that. But Rishi Sunak is probably the most intelligent prime minister we have had, most decent prime minister too, for many, many years. The Labour leader said: "We accept that victory humbly and go on from here to make that case across the country to usher out 13 years of decline and bring in a Labour government and a decade, I hope, of national renewal." The witness is not the first person to have made such a point about senior politicians and media proprietors. The 2012 Leveson inquiry found the relationship between politicians and the press over the previous three decades had damaged the perception of public affairs. It concluded that politicians of all parties had developed “too close a relationship with the press in a way which has not been in the public interest”.The lost decade was a Tory decade and perhaps the next one will be, too. They broke Britain; do they really mean to mend it?

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Jones takes us through a 'tsunami of unmitigated failure' from the coalition, through welfare system 'reforms', to what essentially amounts to defunding of the NHS, through austerity, cuts to legal aid, culling our badger population in an attempt to reduce bovine tuberculosis that flew in the face of scientific evidence to the contrary, Brexit and, of course, Covid. I'm going to go out on a limb and say it should be required reading lest anyone is tempted to try and vote them in again. narcissistic, bullshitting nincompoop who went on Have I Got News For You and was unable to correctly answer the Have YOU donated to my crowdfunding appeal, raising funds to fight false libel claims by TV celebrities who should know better? These court cases cost a lot of money so every penny will help ensure that wealth doesn’t beat justice. It was reported chief whip Mark Spencer spends most of his days inventing dazzlingly clever new insults for his colleagues- Not solve them, you’ll notice: just stop them from happening – but she didn’t tell them how or give them any more resourcesDoing small fixes to various things across the north and beyond does seem politically smart. I do wonder what Labour will do - they are trapped now into either saying they’ll do both the new and old project, or look like they’re letting down some.” In The Decade in Tory, Jones gives us a magnificent tour of misconduct in public office and venal malfeasance on a scale the country should have a collective nightmare about. As Jones points out It's absolutely fine to scream occasionally whole reading this book. To put this into context, the previous guy was Gavin Williamson, a supernaturally incompetent lurching tower of wrong wearing the teeth of a starved horse Then he had what seemed to be a bit of a breakdown, and wrote the tweet again, this time denying any such event had ever happened

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The Guardian has repeatedly asked Johnson about his attendances at these parties, and whether he thinks, given the senior government jobs he has held, he is taking unnecessary risks. He has always declined to answer. Upstairs, the atmosphere in the purple lit L-shaped party room was hedonistic, those present said. And as the night went on it got increasingly uninhibited. This was in contrast to the more conventional room downstairs, where most of the politicians had gathered, they said. And if there was anything wrong or unjust in how Jones describes his many Tory targets (over half of Tory MPs who served in the years 2010 to 2020 are named in this litany of failure) I am sure they would come out to refute his claims... David Davis, the former Brexit secretary, suggested Rishi Sunak’s speech at Conservative Party conference in Manchester yesterday was the “most thoughtful” from a prime minister since Margaret Thatcher. The prime minister, meanwhile, looked to blame "local factors" for the results, saying "mid-term elections are always difficult for incumbent governments".Labour has overturned two huge Conservative majorities to win by-elections in Tamworth and Mid Bedfordshire, in a terrible result for Rishi Sunak, with Sir Keir Starmer lauding a "phenomenal" set of results. Sir Keir said he is now hoping to win the next general election and stay in Number 10 for at least a decade, after Tory voters were "fed up with the decline and despairing at the party they used to vote for". You can probably tell that I'm very much part of the target audience. I remember much of what is covered from when it happened. I probably tutted at each individual scandal at the time. Reading about them now, one after the other, piled up next to each other, made me angry, exasperated and sad. Sad that we have been played by these incompetents for so long.