Will the Tories go extinct?

Will the Tories go extinct?

“Pro-bono publico, no bloody panico.” With these words, Rear Admiral Sir Morgan Morgan-Giles sought to calm his fellow Conservative backbenchers  over the question of European unity in 1972. At least in the short term, the Tories survived that squall. There have, though, been plenty of occasions in their long history when Conservatives might have panicked. They endured crushing electoral defeat at the hands of the Liberals in 1906, and then agai…