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Trussanomics swings Tories to the right of Trump and Bolsonaro
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.

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