Kemi Badenoch blir ny partiledare för Tories
Kemi Badenoch blir Torypartiets sjätte partiledare på mindre än åtta och ett halv år.
SvT 2 november 2024
In July’s UK election the Conservatives suffered, in their terms, a wipeout.
Their 121 seats on 24 per cent of the vote were their worst results since the party was formally established in the 1830s.
Her victory marks a doubling down on the post-Brexit swerve to the right that is the root of the party’s current travails.
The only road back to power is through restoring its appeal to the UK at large, not a narrow right flank.
Both candidates, in different ways, misdiagnosed the cause of the Conservative rout as being insufficiently rightwing, particularly on immigration and tax.
In reality, many voters were so disenchanted with 14 years of Tory rule that they sought to dispatch the government by any means possible.
FT Editorial 2 November 2024
BBC Badenoch promises change after historic Tory leadership win
It is not an obvious route to winning back disgruntled voters
This “new bureaucratic class”, as Ms Badenoch terms it, comprises private-sector compliance lawyers, human-resources staff, university administrators, NGO workers and green lobbyists.
They owe their comfortable middle-class livelihoods to demanding ever more government regulation to enforce, at the expense of the “old middle class” of entrepreneurs.
And that regulation is to blame for an astonishing range of Britain’s ailments: low growth, high taxation, high immigration, social polarisation, low-value degrees, a creaking health service and the weakening of the nation-state itself.
The new bureaucratic class is, the authors wrote, a “new left, not based primarily on nationalisation and private sector trade unions, but ever increasing social and economic control”.
It fell to the Tories to confront them.
The Economist 2 November 2024
CNN Kemi Badenoch wins Conservative leadership contest, pitching party to the right after blowout UK election loss
Det brittiska Torypartiet står inför en historisk ledarstrid
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