A Tory witch hunt for MPs held responsible for ousting Johnson?
Has a purge of the Tory ‘moderates’ begun, and how will the Brexit ultras respond to Sunak’s post-Brexit Northern Ireland deal?
Has a purge of the Tory ‘moderates’ begun, and how will the Brexit ultras respond to Sunak’s post-Brexit Northern Ireland deal?
Matt Hancock has proven yet again to be the scapegoat, but it’s those turning the right-wing media cog who are arguably the bigger villains.
The star seems to be dimming on the ultra-egotists who managed to win over millions of voters with their status quo-busting discourse that liberal democracy had run its course, but the light is by no means out.
Not content with taking us out of Europe, the anti-EU right-wing forces in Britain have set their sights on some of our most cherished institutions.
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.