What a swell Tory party it was. Just a shame that real life gatecrashed it | Marina Hyde
At the Tories’ Black and White ball on Wednesday night, a donor’s £55,000 won them the chance to spend a day with Theresa May. Don’t even make the obvious joke about what the second prize was. The third prize was Ebola. I’m pleased the Tories felt confident enough to auction off the political equivalent of a private dance so soon after the Presidents Club furore, especially given the almost total overlap of the guest lists for the two events. Then again, why wouldn’t they? A series of polls this week found the Tories still pretty much at the same level as Labour.
Given its lack of any other discernible purpose, it’s possible that this government has been specifically designed as an experiment into how radioactively useless an administration can be and still poll equal to Labour. As a piece of electoral performance art, Theresa May’s Conservatives rank alongside Grace Mugabe’s suggestion last year that her husband could contest an election even “as a corpse”.
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