For a government limping along under the rule of its fifth prime minister in six years, drenched in sleaze and infighting, conventional wisdom says surely the Tories can’t survive the next general election. But then this is politics, and anything can happen.
With a handful of Conservative-supporting billionaires controlling most of the country’s national newspaper industry, the BBC in the firing line of the Tory right, the arrival of two openly reactionary broadcasters, and the launch of more right-wing populist news websites, Britain’s media is shifting further to the right.
Recent UK Tory governments’ relentless posturing as freedom champions while slowly chipping away at civil liberties through draconian legislation, bears worrying resemblance to the actions of the global right.
Amid Tory-leaning voter jitters, Reform UK, the rebranded Brexit party, is enjoying a rise in popularity.
The right-wing media’s multi-facetted attacks on the NHS, which range from pinning the crisis on ‘woke non-jobs’ to sickening trashing of GPs, would be enough to fill a library.
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As a dire electoral future beckons the Tories, desperate times call for desperate measures, lighting the touchpaper for a possible return of Boris Johnson.
The political right is ramping up efforts to demonise trade unions, peddling dishonest and hysterical campaigns, propped up by their billionaire-owned media and the out-of-touch Etonian commentators who spout such drivel with supposed integrity.
From voter suppression to abortion rights, we take a look at some of the craziest and dangerous ideas from the American right that are gaining worrying traction in Britain.
As turmoil within the Tory party festers, at the helm of the infighting is Brexit.
Liz Truss might have been cast to political oblivion, but she was the breed of prime minister the Tory right had long yearned for, and her spectacular downfall has not allayed the thirst for true-blue tax cuts.
