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The Tories in The New European 2016-2024

They might have ruined the country, crashed the economy, partied through Covid and brought us Brexit … but on the upside, the Tories have provided us with great front-page material. We’ll miss that*

The New European

*We won’t

Who is the worst of the five Conservative PMs we’ve suffered since Brexit? They can all make a strong case, but David Cameron is the man who set the trainwreck in motion with Brexit
Jacob Rees-Mogg’s Seventh Seal-inspired July 2018 cover came at a time when his European Research Group Europhobic Tory cult held Theresa May (and the nation) in thrall
It’s January 2019, and Theresa May is preparing the nation for a catastrophe. Remember the mantra? “No deal is better than a bad deal!”

By July 2019, we had a new PM with a new mantra… “Get Brexit Done!” But Boris Johnson’s premiership left the nation feeling something else altogether. We’d all been done
It’s July 2021, and the truth of Partygate is emerging. A government out of control and oblivious to the outrage its actions would provoke
Editor-at-large Alastair Campbell coins a new phrase for the emerging political philosophy of Boris Johnson: Sado-populism
One thing Johnson was world class at, was the blame game. Everything was wrong but none of it was his fault. Crises proliferated … from haulage to empty shelves, from sectarian violence in Northern Ireland to Cornish fishermen facing ruin after Brexit. None of it was Johnson’s fault
As the energy crisis took hold and the nation looked for dynamic leadership, our dynamic leader could be found … on the beach
Enough was enough. But what came next was extraordinary. Perhaps the most prescient front page TNE has published?
To be fair, Mr Blobby would have been a significantly shrewder political operator than the successor to Calamity Liz
Editor-at-large Matthew d’Ancona captures the hypocrisy baked in to Sunak’s relentless attempt to position himself as anything other than a hedge-funder on a brief political secondment
“The plan is working” became the new mantra. We had to hold our nerve, Sunak said. But as food bank queues lengthened, and mortgages soared, Britain felt as if it was regressing
Never one to miss an opportunity to piss someone off, Rishi Sunak picks a random fight with the Greeks over the Parthenon marbles
From the man who couldn’t be bothered hanging around with D-day veterans in Normandy, a call for the youth of Britain – whose future Sunak’s Brexit did much to damage – to do their bit!
A gang of ghouls, whose 14-year reign of chaos in the UK has been nothing short of a horror show. This brilliant cover by artist WeFail captured the mood perfectly. Truly, things can only get better

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What is the philosophy of Starmerism?

How can a new government make Britain better – and what does ‘better’ even mean nowadays?
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A conspiracy of silence

A lacklustre campaign has been marked by an unwillingness to get real about Britain’s problems