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Tories: The End of an Error
Russell Jones
in conversation with Rob Gifford
Wednesday 26 November 2025, 7.00 - 8.00pm
In-person at Waterstones Milton Keynes, Unit 72,
Midsummer Place, Central Milton Keynes, MK9 3GA
or livestreamed via Zoom
Tickets: £10/£7 (in-person); £8/£6 (livestream)
Russell Jones offers us a rollicking, rip-roaring, impeccably sourced and blackly comedic first draft of history.
Tories: The End of an Error is the final - please God, let it be final - volume in the satirical trilogy that has catalogued every fib and fatuity of fourteen years of Tory rule, diving straight into the failing, plastic managerialism of Rishi Sunak's gap-year in office.
Strap in tight as Russell Jones takes us on the final rollercoaster ride of the Torygeddon circus...
Relive the rise and fall of Suella Braverman, Boris Johnson's resignation honours list, and Nadine Dorries' beserk response; the short-lived rise of Penny Mordaunt; the Covid Inquiry and the Partygate Inquiry; the scandal-laden resignations (too many to list); the endless failure to tackle climate change, housing, migration, cost of living or, frankly, anything much. And as a grande finale, the inevitable, half-formulated jumble of preening idiocy that was the 2024 General Election.
About Russell Jones
Russell Jones is best known for his scathing, detailed reporting of government ineptitude in the famed #TheWeekInTory social media threads. He has since published three histories of the Conservative government since 2010: the Sunday Times bestselling The Decade In Tory, Four Chancellors and a Funeral, and is now launching Tories: The End of an Error. He is a columnist for Byline Supplement, and still intermittently works as a software developer and illustrator. He has also recently branched out into writing fiction, releasing his debut novel, Baby's Breath, in September. All his books will be available at the event.
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About Rob Gifford
Rob Gifford is a cultural activist based in Stony Stratford. He co-curates StonyWords, the annual community festival celebrating the word in all its formats which happens every year in January. He is also chair of Stony Stratford Theatre Society with whom he has acted for the last eight years, including Antonio in The Merchant of Venice and The Duke in Measure for Measure. With SSTC, he has adapted a number of Dickens stories for performance to raise money for MK Food Bank. He has been a member of the Labour Party since 1976, which means he has seen every permutation of it!
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