By Elena Siniscalco Harold Wilson’s maxim that a week is a long time in politics is in danger of becoming a rule for 2022 too. In the last eight days, we have seen the Conservative Party conference take place in Birmingham, the MPs and activists churn themselves into a maelstrom of high drama, and the government abandon its controversial plans to abolish the highest rate of income tax. Of course the cry of “U-turn!” goes up, as it always does, and the new administration’s credibility, already thoroughly battle-scarred, takes another pounding. The predictions for the yearly party jamboree could…