For classical conservatives, it was hard to know for what outcome to hope from last Thursday’s UK General Election. Were we to yield to the definition of insanity by voting again for the Conservatives in the hope that this time they might actually be true to their name, or vote for Reform UK with the aspiration of wiping out the party that has betrayed its voters for so long and thereby enable an alternative vehicle to replace it?

Now the dust has settled, it is difficult not to worry that we have the worst of all worlds – a Labour government...