We woke up in England last Sunday morning to hear the good news from Down Under, pleased for our Australian kinsmen but despairing that we would never, it seemed, have the guts to do to what they had done: elect a proper conservative to rule our country.
The last time it happened here, after all, was 1987.
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Simon Heffer is political columnist of the Daily Mail in London and author of several books, including Like the Roman: The Life of Enoch Powell.
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