text:  His Downing Street staff holding lockdown parties during the COVID pandemic, having set a rule for everybody else, his people didn't obey themselves. And then Liz Truss, who was very briefly prime minister, held a disastrous mini budget, which shattered the Conservatives' reputation for economic confidence. So all of those things together meant that the country was just fundamentally sick of them. And politically, were they outmaneuvered on the right by Nigel Farage and the Reform Party?