The Change in Conservative Politics

I've yet to have anybody say on the doorstep that the situation with Boris Johnson one way or the other is something that would inform their views. I think in my view it's a good thing that we're moving on from that era. It's been a divisive period for all sorts of reasons. Voters feel frankly that they're a bit sick of the drama that they saw. A lot of that was quite personal. And they want to be able to see that the serious issues that are going on that are impacting on their lives are being dealt with by the government. That tendency in conservative politics has gone very, very quiet. Maybe that's one of the reasons now, fundamentally, underneath the