The Tory party is putrefying before our eyes

Boris Johnson endorses Donald Trump and confirms the moral decay at the heart of the Conservative party

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Barring some happy misadventure, Donald Trump will be the Republican party’s candidate in this November’s presidential nomination. This grisly probability has been apparent for many months but time has made it no more respectable. The partisan realities of American politics then dictate that Trump has at least something like a 45 percent chance of returning to the White House to serve the most improbable - and most depressing - second-term in the Republic’s history. An awful lot hinges on the state of the New York stock market and, crucially, whether voters will recognise the relative health …