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National Conservatism: New or Old?

These Times

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The National Conservative Project in a World in Which the Idea of a National Project Runs Into the Internationalised World Economy

Liz Truss must be the most alien Tory party leader that they have had in their history. I think she was also just a symptom of what's happened to the parliamentary Conservative party. It's not clear how you would create a cross-class coalition around the home ownership issue, particularly when you've got to then think about really the conflict of interest between the generations where this is concerned. The idea of a national project of any political persuasion runs into the internationalised world economy and the nature of geopolitical competition that now increasingly dominates.

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