Kemi Badenoch’s shadow cabinet reshuffle saw plenty of promotions for yesterday’s men – but the party is on an inevitable course towards an electoral iceberg, says William Atkinson

Over the weekend, I re-read London Fields, by Martin Amis. (This paper’s Opinion and Features Editor introduced me to the late author two years ago, and of all his works, it was his introspective black comedy come murder mystery come darting handbook that I most enjoyed). Overhanging the novel is an all-pervasive sense of death: of the terminally ill narrator, of Nicola Six, who foresees her own murder, and of the planet, trapped in a moral, environmental and geopolitical crisis.

I encounter this same death-feeling when thinking about the Conservative Party. I’m exhausted trying to find new ways to say that Kemi Badenoch is a dud, the party is in terminal decline and that it has receded into irrelevance – first hated, then ignored and now a footnote to Nigel Farage’s........

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