Lord Lexden has been profiled in Parliament's The House magazine this month.
“No aged person should be pessimistic,” says Lord Lexden. The Conservative Party’s official historian, a man who has served it for five decades, assesses its future.
On the one hand, Tories have governed 102 years since the Great Reform Act of 1867. On the other, the last election result was its worst since the 1740s.
“This is a very considerable mountain, indeed,” he says of Kemi Badenoch’s mission to renew the Conservatives. “Foolish to despair, but foolish not to recognise the magnitude of the task.”
The term “senior Conservative” has lost meaning, so often and so inaccurately is it applied, but generations of senior Conservatives have been schooled by Alistair Cooke, Baron Lexden.
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