The Tory Party Is Now a Middle Class Protest Party

You've argued that George Monbiot's characterization of the conservative right as representing political-catechic interests is incorrect. And instead you argue that the Tory party is now, as you put it, a middle-class protest party. Can you explain why you take that view? And also, if figures like Liz Truss and Quasi Quatang were the creatures of the Institute of Economic Affairs, how did the latter institution become so enmored from economic reality? Or do you think it always was and that the role of a savvy conservative parliamentarian is to sift through the prescriptions of institutions like the IEA to find workable material while jettisoning some of the