but it s an indication of the scale. two things for the conservatives to worry about. first, but leave vote is potentially relatively fragile. second, there is a risk the lib dems are now back in business and perhaps their ability to eat away at some vital conservative seats will have been strengthened. but we should also recognise that the future of our politics is probably intimately tied up with the future of the pandemic, which is unknowable. but what is true is this government at the moment is in a sense betting. that boosting boosters will be enough to deal with it and the nhs won t be overwhelmed. i guess everyone hates thatjudgment will prove right but if it were to be proved wrong, the conservatives could find this a difficult position to recover from could find this a difficult position to recoverfrom everyone hopes