I can remember reading a book by Hunter Davies in which he was given access to the Spurs squad circa 70/72 in which a eighteen or nineteen year old Steve Perryman had just broken into the team. Politics barely gets a mention, but I can remember Perryman being genuinely shocked when Davies told him that almost all of the squad were “apathetic Tories” based on what they’d told him because Perryman assumed they were all Labour supporters like him.

That phrase “apathetic Tories” stuck with me because it’s an adjective for this country - full of people who keep on voting Conservative until something happens to change their own comfortable existence - seems like we’re seeing more evidence of this in the case of law breaking (I wrongly called it rule breaking in the thread title) in Downing Street.