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The Transformation of the Conservative Party-In Conversation with Tim Bale

Rock & Roll Politics with Steve Richards

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The Insurrection of the Parliamentary Party

It seems to me that this Parliamentary Party, which you chronicle and observe several times in the book, has been increasingly less deferential to leaders. Remains as hard to govern for Sunak now as for Theresa May, Boris Johnson and Liz Truss,. With brotherment dramas, the various conferences, I know you've reflected on as well. Is that your view that we are still witnessing a Parliamentary Party and the wider Tory Party, as being as insurrectionary as ever? "I think things have calmed down a little bit," he says.

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