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🔵 In the Conservative leadership contest, the candidates ignore Britain's pressing issues | Observer editorial

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Neither Robert Jenrick nor Kemi Badenoch have said much about the economic state the country was left inBig election defeats almost always throw political parties into existential crises: who do they represent, what are they for? The Conservative party, however, had tied itself in knots over these questions long before it experienced its worst-ever electoral defeat in July. Now it remains locked in its long contest to select its next leader.The disastrous electoral result saw its 2019 vote share – inflated by Boris Johnson’s populist pledge to “get Brexit done” – collapse to its lowest since 1832; Conservative thinktank Onward highlights how a significant number of the lost votes went not just to Reform, but to Labour ...

The Guardian     Oct 20, 2024