With Rishi Sunak in No 10, it will no longer be the focus of national contempt


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Photo by Rob Pinney/Getty Images An Easter thought: parliamentary democracy is quite good at renewal. As presidential and quasi-presidential systems, from Israel to France to the US, confront their demons, Westminster is quietly expelling its own. With the main parties all led by serious-minded and respectable people, the carnival of madness of recent times may be largely over. The hard right is reassembling and will not go away because “populism” has become a synonym for anger in modern politics, and there is still plenty of anger about. But the parliamentary majorities are now in more stable, calmer hands. For the...