The prospect of Johnson's downfall is joyful. The threat of what may follow is not | John Harris

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : If the next occupant of Downing Street attempts the full-blown return of Tory ideas that have already torn Britain apart, could the weary public mood after Brexit and Covid allow them to succeed?
52% : Liz Truss seems ecstatically happy to give the impression of someone starring in a school play about the blessed Margaret, and makes speeches about the dangers of "inexorably growing the size of the state", as opposed to the wonders of "free trade and free enterprise".
49% : The reason that there have been sporadic Tory attempts to move away from the politics of the free market - the fitful stirrings of "red Toryism", the tilts in that direction under both Johnson and
46% : For the Tories, such a shift would have gone with the grain of a lot of what Johnson embraced, albeit in his usual half-arsed way: his embryonic "levelling up" drive, a readiness to put up taxes, the flexing of the state's muscles in pursuit of net zero carbon emissions.
42% : The resumed cutting of public spending might gladden Thatcherite hearts, but more sensible Tories long ago realised that austerity had already gone way too far.

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