From the moment that Boris Johnson first entered the House of Commons, fully 19 years ago, the Right has demanded that he be made Leader. It has treated his predecessors as illegitimate.
And now, here he is. But that gives the Right no pleasure. On the contrary, from yesterday it has been engaged in a Murdoch-backed coup, today's stage of which is Liam Fox's intervention.
The people who blamed the miners for Orgreave, the fans for Hillsborough, and the residents and the firefighters for Grenfell Tower, are now trying to blame the NHS staff for the shortage of PPE.
They are not prepared to wait for Keir Starmer to take Britain back to the privatisation of the Blair years, before which there was no such concept as NHS privatisation beyond the wilder fringes of cranky pseudo-academia.
This is their last hope of delegitimising the National Health Service, which the Prime Minister describes as "the beating heart of this country", and which the nation unites to applaud every week. The Centre is the think tank for this new era. Please give generously.
These are very strange times, David. Times that call for everyone to work together.. There is some evidence of this. Hopefully it will spread.
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