THE Tories anticipate a defeat deeper than any suffered for decades. 

This party regards itself as the natural party of government but as squabbling tribes of Tories — each less representative of either public opinion or even the settled positions of the ruling class itself — scrabble for purchase on the public psyche, the scum naturally floats to the top.

Into this category we can consign Suella Braverman’s suggestion that multiculturalism has failed. How the son of an Indian pharmacist gets to be prime minister suggests some routes to integration into one or other of Britain’s contending classes are open to the lucky, the endowed or the enabled.