In October I wrote that the Conservatives risked losing moderates like me, that it was only a matter of time until a large number of members and voters, attracted to a party that drove through the legalisation of gay marriage and a general liberalisation of the right, would no longer accept the influx of Ukip and the far right.

That time has now come, or at least it has for me. Having witnessed Theresa May’s pointless delay to vote on a deal clearly unacceptable to Brexiteers and Remainers, Boris Johnson’s blatant lies in front of a digger at JCB, and the cries for talks by Conservatives that will be based on May’s original red lines, I’m done. The Conservatives are no longer a party of