The New Statesman
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Conservatives surpassed New Labour’s 4,757 consecutive days in government.
They greeted the milestone with complete silence, even though the past 13 years have been catastrophic for the UK.
By almost any measure political, economic and social we are a gravely diminished country.
Michael Gove was asked to list the government's greatest achievements at last week's National Conservatism conference.
The Tories have seriously weakened our core institutions, leaving civil service dispirited and demoralised.
They have ignored sexual harassment, bullying, illicit lobbying and the leaking of confidential information by Tory ministers and MPs.
We're a much less happy nation than we were before 2010, those “sunlit uplands” having proved a mirage.
We’re much less united, the Tories having shamelessly practised the politics of division, engaged in culture wars and treated both Scotland and Northern Ireland with contempt.
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