A year since the election – and could there be a sliver of light?

A year since the election – and could there be a sliver of light?

It was this time last year that voters went to the polls and sent the Tory party a clear message – as one shadow cabinet member put it: “Sit in the corner and think about what you’ve done.” The Conservative government came to an end, leaving the party with its worst parliamentary defeat in history – just 121 MPs. Labour secured the largest majority government in 25 years, while Reform, still relatively new, managed to capture 14.3 per cent of th…