The Times’s endorsement for the general election: Back to the Future
The country faces a choice between a party that can deliver Brexit and one that will deliver economic mayhem. For that reason The Times supports the Conservatives
Most people can probably agree that this has not been the most edifying of elections. It has been characterised to a degree unusual even by recent standards of British political debate by bitterness, exaggerations and falsehoods. It has pitted an evasive prime minister against the most unpopular opposition leader in polling history.
No wonder that the overwhelming response among the 100 floating voters who participated in The Times’s recent focus group was one of frustration. Many said they despaired at the choice on offer. Yet this is not a choice that can be ducked, nor is it ultimately a difficult one.
All elections are of course important. But the stakes tomorrow are higher than at any election since Margaret Thatcher’s battle in 1983 against a