The Tory conference was a pseudo-sacred affair, with devotees paying homage in front of Thatcher’s old shrouds — and your reporter, initially barred, only need mention he’d once met her to gain access. But would she consider what was on offer a worthy legacy, asks ANDREW MURRAY
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It's not fascism, but it must be fought
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson has a history of race-baiting comments
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Following comments made by Robert Jenrick about the people of Handsworth, the TUC, together with 12 trade unions representing members who live and work in the area, have issued a joint letter calling for the Conservative Party to take immediate action
With the rise of Reform and the flag-raising phenomenon, it’s hard not to recall my family’s struggles with racism, from Teddy Boys attacking my pregnant mother to me being told to ‘go back to the jungle’ at only five years old, writes ROGER MCKENZIE
The move to restrict exports of the important rare earth metals that China has a 90% monopoly on has provoked Trump to declare a 100% tariff on Chinese exports and other retaliatory measures, reports DYLAN MURPHY
THERE has been a lot written as to why the Labour lost the general election, some of which appears to suggest the Conservative Party is either fascist or leading the country in this direction – and voters, particularly those in the north and the Midlands, voted Tory for racist reasons.
The Conservative Party is not a fascist party. No doubt fascists exist within it. Tommy Robinson has said he has joined for instance, as has Katie Hopkins. Today it has right-wing elements – but it always has, for example the right-wing Monday Club. But this doesn’t make it fascist.
It can perhaps now be defined as a right-wing English nationalist party. There are similarities which have been used by some to define the Tories as proto-fascist — populism and scapegoating for example, but privileged elites such as banks, the City and so on have not been attacked and the populist sloganeering amounted to “Get Brexit Done” — which was a response to the failure by Parliament to do what it said it would do in 2017.
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