Bagehot: Wanted: a new leader and a new direction

摘要

The end of Charles Kennedy, Liberal Democrat leader until he was finished off by mps on January 7th, was not a pretty sight, but party members tempted to take issue with the axe-men should remember two things. First, the mps were quite right to get rid of him. Second, recriminations in the Tory party about the removal of Margaret Thatcher poisoned the atmosphere in the party for more than a decade.