Boris johnson's departure from the Conservative Party does not signal anything to the rest of the world, says Rin Wold. The party has always found a way to adjust to different times and i think that, in some ways, what we are seeing at the moment is the conservative party doing its regeneration thing. In most other democracies, they are more competitive than uk. elections havetended to be, historically speaking. That doesn't teach us all that much about the global picture, because in most other democracies,. they are morecompetitive than uK.