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ANDREW MURRAY muses on the Tory Party’s capacity to reincarnate itself despite all rumours of its decline, and doubts the conclusions of a rare analysis from the left
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The Party’s Over
Phil Burton-Cartledge, Verso, £11.99
THIS is an updated version of a rarity on the left, a book that takes the Tory Party seriously as a political actor.
Socialists endlessly pore over the entrails of the Labour Party, yet the Conservatives are routinely dismissed in the most sweeping terms as simply the pliable governing instrument of the class enemy.
The Tories deserve more scrutiny of the sort this book attempts. After all, it is not only the concentrated expression of the British bourgeoisie, it also from time to time gets more working-class votes at elections than the Labour Party.
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