The New Statesman
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The Conservatives, facing a potentially apocalyptic election defeat, are engaged in a long process of radicalisation.
This week’s Popular Conservatism launch was the latest landmark on this journey.
It is partly born of an inability to contain the kinetic energy of Brexit and the dying embers of Thatcherite project.
Both reshaped the Conservative psyche and left a faction within the party always hungry for combat.
PopCons have embraced a Trump restoration while also burnishing their credentials as great protectors of Ukraine and western security.
They knowingly seek to delegitimise journalists and civil servants by conflating being impartial with acting impartially.
This is straight from the US right playbook. I worry about the direction of British politics. One of the main anchors of our politics has become increasingly unmoored from reality.
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