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Post-truth and post-conservative?

July 5, 2021 by Tim Bale 3 Comments

“The British Conservative Party, perhaps more so than most other mainstream centre-right parties in Europe, has long flirted with populism – even (her critics would doubtless say ‘especially’) under Margaret Thatcher.  But it has never embraced it as fully, and as recklessly, as it seems to be doing right now.”

After Davidson…?

September 2, 2019 by Mark Shephard 1 Comment

‘Indeed, the most promising future for Scottish Conservatives might actually be in an independent Scotland, free from the members of their party pursuing a very different narrative at Westminster.’

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