10 points behind and with much further still to fall, Keir Starmer's Labour Party is going to lose another 50 Red Wall seats in 2024. In those constituencies, which elected Labour MPs even in 2019, Conservative Party organisation is almost nonexistent.
Tiny, and more or less apolitical, cliques of older upper-middle-class housewives and the posher sort of older farmers' wives, with no culture of choosing their MP by choosing their candidate, will give that candidacy to any plausible young man who might ask for it.
And Jeremy Corbyn had quite a following among plausible young men who will by 2024 be old enough to be first time candidates for supposedly hopeless seats. Lo and behold, a certain number of them will enter the House of Commons at an age when they might stay there for 40 years. Welcome to the future of the Conservative Party.
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