Peter Hitchens reflects on the consequences of David Cameron's premiership, suggesting that the country might have been better off if Gordon Brown had won the 2010 election. He argues that Cameron's decision to call the EU referendum was a cynical ploy, as he believed the Liberal Democrats would block it.
Hitchens claims that Cameron's main goal was to save the Conservative Party from collapse, but that a defeat in 2010 could have led to a new, genuinely conservative party. He criticises the Coalition government's record, particularly on the economy and foreign policy, citing the intervention in Libya as a disaster that fuelled mass migration.
He concludes that a Brown victory would have left Jeremy Corbyn as a marginal figure and spared the country the current constitutional crisis over Brexit. Hitchens laments that his warnings were ignored.
