New Tory voters will give Boris time but not too much, says PATRICK O’FLYNN

EVERY once in a while, politics throws up an epoch-defining election that crystallises a cultural change as well as a dramatic swing of the political pendulum. One thinks of 1979 when ambitious young southern working-class voters turned Tory, or of 1997 when Tony Blair won "Worcester Woman" and "Mondeo Man" over to the New Labour cause.