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I have been thinking about the Tories a lot recently and the only way I can make sense of their dramatic shift to the left reshuffle, while the country is clearly moving right, is as a desperate survival strategy. They now accept they can’t outflank Reform or win back centre-right voters without the leadership, MP’s or policies to do so. By abandoning core conservative principles, they will deepen their identity crisis. Perhaps their calculation and only hope is to pick up votes from the useless Lib Dem’s — a leftward gamble that might just keep them alive at the next election. But this short-term calculation weakens the party’s long-term credibility and hands Reform the centre-right ground if they want to take it. Recent signs from Reform are that, worryingly, they too are edging to the centre. No surprise then that Kemi’s reshuffle is driven by Tory SpAds who openly support Stonewall—left-wing activists steering the party away from its roots. This reshuffle indicates that mere survival is all the Tories are now playing for.