Wednesday night brought the annual Spectator Parliamentarian of the Year awards. I always find these kinds of events a bit uncomfortable but this one was even more excruciating than usual. Brutal doesn’t even come close to describing the personal animosity over Brexit within the Conservative Party, which was on full display at the awards ceremony.
George Osborne led the proceedings. He had to present awards to Iain Duncan Smith, whom he tried to get sacked; to Theresa May, who sacked him; and to Boris Johnson, who only campaigned for Brexit to further his own career, was knifed by George’s ex-bestie Michael Gove, and yet still ended up as Foreign Secretary.
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