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The ruination of Britain

For the fiasco of the Truss premiership and the country’s disastrous state, the Conservative Party must collectively take responsibility.

    • A newspaper, featuring an image of former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, rests on a fence outside 10 Downing Street in London, October 21, 2022.
    • A newspaper, featuring an image of former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, rests on a fence outside 10 Downing Street in London, October 21, 2022. REUTERS
    Published Fri, Oct 21, 2022 · 04:24 PM

    UNTIL very recently, the British Conservative Party was able to claim, with a great deal of credibility, that it was the most successful political party in the Western world.

    The party of Benjamin Disraeli, Winston Churchill and Margaret Thatcher has governed Britain for most of the last 200 years. Through much of that time, the Conservatives have been synonymous with good sense, financial sobriety and cautious pragmatism. Despised by progressive elites, allergic to ideology, provincial rather than metropolitan, the Conservative Party rejoiced in being the stolid party of the boring middle ground.

    Not anymore. Today, the Conservatives are synonymous with chaos.

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