Ross Douthat: 'Liz Truss, the new prime minister of Britain who may not be the prime minister for long, is by general agreement out of touch with reality.'
Giorgia Meloni at a news conference in Rome after early projections had her coalition winning a majority in Italy's Parliament early Monday morning, Sept. 26, 2022.Liz Truss, the new prime minister of Britain who may not be the prime minister for long, is by general agreement out of touch with reality.
But Truss has gone in the opposite direction, not just with her tax-cut push, but with a push for expanded immigration — a double-down on a 1980s growth prescription, a Ronald Reagan-Margaret Thatcher nostalgia trip, that has carried the Tories away from their own constituents and earned her party absolutely apocalyptic poll numbers.
Only the populist right talks consistently about all three problems; thus its current political advantage. But does the populist right know how to address them? Not exactly. Johnson, Truss’ ill-fated predecessor, promised a rebalancing of investments that would benefit the neglected non-Londonian regions of Britain, and you could argue that a larger rebalancing is what all these problems should provoke. A shift from public spending on the old to spending on young people and parents.
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