It is quite remarkable that barely five years after winning one of its biggest parliamentary majorities in memory, the Conservative Party of the U.K. is on the cusp of a complete wipeout.
Polling for the July 4 U.K. general election projects that the Labour Party will win an enormous majority of more than 200 seats and condemn the Tories to such irrelevancy that they may not even be the largest opposition party.
But when the exit poll projects the results in the evening of July 4 showing Labour winning a massive supermajority, and party leader Keir Starmer marches to Buckingham Palace to meet with King Charles and form a new Parliament as prime minister, the Conservative Party will have only itself to blame.
When then-Prime Minister Boris Johnson led the Conservative Party to its landslide victory in 2019, the U.K. electorate delivered a mandate to finish Brexit and end the era of…
