The future is not what it used to be. Can the Conservative Party adapt to confront the challenges that the country now faces?
It has done it before. The party claims—with some justification—to be the longest-serving party of government the world has known, going back to Pitt the Younger in 1783. Despite the British Isles and the wider world having changed unrecognisably over these centuries, the Tories have retained their dominance. They have been in power for 32 of the last 50 years.