A question: have you at any point, when watching Theresa May being slowly swallowed up inside the collapsing deckchair that is the Conservative party, thought “I’d like to give them some money?”It’s hard to believe isn’t it? Yet in the last three months of 2018, the Tory party coffers got a right good stuffing. More than £7.3 million in donations. That’s more than two thirds more than the previous quarter, the highest since May became leader outside the 2017 election, and more than every single other political party put together. “Oh god, please let this not be because they think they want another election,” said one senior minister who I bumped into in parliament last night.

Source: The Times February 28, 2019 09:33 UTC