With its no shortage of whackadoodle speeches interrupted by protestors shouting claims of fascism, and the Home Secretary making a blatant bid for party leadership, if NatCon UK proved anything, it is that Tory internal discipline is collapsing.
The NatCon conference is timely because many Tories are thinking about a post-election repositioning. Whether it will hold any weight among voters remains to be seen.
The King has never kept his quasi-political views secret, much to the disproval of many royalists who believe the monarch should stay out of politics.
It seems Raab’s departure and his searing attack on the civil service, could be used by the Tories to rig the system by weeding out the liberals, demonise them for their own failings, and appoint ‘their own,’ as a means of driving policies forward to deliver on their own political objectives.
In disenfranchising people on lower incomes, younger generations and ethnic minorities, what looks to be the latest Tory ruse to drain the Labour vote, could easily backfire for the government.
Will chasing the same narrow economically left but culturally right constituent pay off for Labour? Or will those who are pushed too far, take their vote to a smaller party jostling for space in the straightjacket of the two-party system, or just not vote at all?
Leading a right-wing ‘think-tank’ seems to be another sure-fire way of transitioning to the Lords.
Boris Johnson might be looking down the barrel of political oblivion after his disastrous appearance at the Privileges Committee, but his legacy of ‘jobs for Tory cronies’ and the politicalisation of public appointments, is alive and kicking.
The rise of high-profile, right-wing women in politics and positions of power isn’t translating into substantive representation of women’s concerns. Quite the opposite in fact.
Has a purge of the Tory ‘moderates’ begun, and how will the Brexit ultras respond to Sunak’s post-Brexit Northern Ireland deal?
