There’s no gratitude in politics, they say. But this aphorism appears to have been refuted in last week’s multiple elections.
The Conservatives in England, the SNP in Scotland and Labour in Wales: all were rewarded.
The point is that in each of our nations, the leaders of these (governing) parties were fronting up the Covid vaccination programme, and were the principal public voice of the policy. It has been extraordinarily successful. So, to the administrators, the political spoils.
The Conservatives might be perplexed, given the vaccination triumph rested so heavily on Boris Johnson‘s wise…
