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Britain's Prime Minister Liz Truss walks past Larry the Cat, Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office as she leaves 10 Downing Street to attend parliament in London, on Sept. 23, 2022.
THE Tories under Liz Truss have become the most economically right-wing party in the “developed” world, according to a survey of political scientists.
The snap survey of a group of experts by the Financial Times suggests the Conservative Party now sits further right than the US Republican Party under Donald Trump — and even Brazil’s ruling party led by far-right President Jair Bolsonaro.
On a scale where 0 represents communist economic policies, and 10 the most extreme right-wing policies around low regulation and low tax, the Conservative Party scored a 9.4.
Far-right forces are rising across Latin America and the Caribbean, armed with a common agenda of anti-communism, the culture war, and neoliberal economics, writes VIJAY PRASHAD
Reform’s rise speaks to a deep crisis in Establishment parties – but relies on appealing to social and economic grievances the left should make its own, argues NICK WRIGHT