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Home Secretary, Suella Braverman is applauded after delivering her keynote speech to the Conservative Party annual conference in Manchester, October 3, 2023
DISMAY is growing within the Tory Party and beyond at the far-right antics and pronouncements of Home Secretary Suella Braverman.
There is speculation that Ms Braverman is positioning herself for a post-election Conservative leadership contest in which her authoritarian demagogy may play well with the party’s aged and intolerant membership base.
In recent days, she has described pro-Palestinian solidarity demonstrations as “hate marches” and urged the police to ban them, while also claiming that homelessness is a “lifestyle choice.”
Some thinkers and authors on the right are openly discussing the possibility that the historically successful party of the British ruling class may be exhausted
The new PM’s opening addresses offered hope, council homes and reform — but little detail on how any of it will be delivered, warns CLAUDIA WEBBE
The social base of the old Tory Party has disappeared as surely as that of Labour, argues ANDREW MURRAY – today’s right are the debased offspring of a capitalism that speculates without investing and profits without producing
Once derided by Farage as a ‘fraud,’ Jenrick has defected to Reform, bringing experience and political ruthlessness to the populist right — and raising the unsettling prospect of a Farage-led movement with a seasoned operative pulling the strings, says ANDREW MURRAY