The true challenge facing Britain's new prime minister
Nigel Farage predicts a Tory wipe-out at the next election -- and says it will be deserved
On Monday, the United Kingdom will get a new prime minister.
Everyone knows that this individual will be faced with a perfect storm of stupendous and urgent problems, including the stratospheric fuel price rises and ruinous cost of living, dangerously rising inflation, reconciling Northern Ireland and the Brexit Protocol whose contradictions threaten to sunder the UK, and stopping the so-far unstoppable traffic in illegal immigrants from France across the English Channel.
After a gruesome and exasperating leadership contest —in which, through a quirk of party organisation, up to an estimated 200,000 Conservative party members are deciding on the next occupant of 10 Downing Street — the new prime minister is predicted to be Liz Truss.
Many, if not most, of these party members are reportedly underwhelmed by both Truss and her opponent, Rishi Sunak. That’s because neither of them comes across as having a principled, consistent and coherent conservative philosophy.
Now Nigel Farage, the man who is arguably the most consequential British politician alive — even though he has never become an MP — has not only disdained both Truss and Sunak but has eviscerated the Conservative party by pointing out what I have long been writing on this site. The real problem is that the party no longer knows what conservatism is.
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