The Badenoch Bounce delusion

“Conference.” Even the bare noun suggests something of the rootless world into which you have entered. Part of the emotional appeal of Tory conference, I gather, is that, much like Jools Holland’s Hootenanny or Henley Royal Regatta, it is virtually the same every year, down to the arrangement of the furniture and location of the bogs. The very familiarity of the situation provides a harmless holiday from political reality. Every autumn, politicians, their staffers and…