Conservatives in the UK are attacking asylum seekers, fearmongering about “Islamists” and rallying against trans rights.
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak gestures as he attends a Q&A at The Queens Hotel, a JD Wetherspoon pub, on March 7, 2024, in Maltby, Rotherham, United Kingdom.British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak gestures as he attends a Q&A at The Queens Hotel, a JD Wetherspoon pub, on March 7, 2024, in Maltby, Rotherham, United Kingdom.Eight years have passed since 2016 — the fateful year when U.K. voters delivered a political earthquake by voting to leave the European Union later, and when U.S.
Johnson saw an ignominious fall from power in the wake of a series of COVID-era scandals, and his brief successor Liz Truss’s economic policies resulted in an overnight implosion of the U.K. economy, a stock market swoon and a currency crisis. For at least a year now, the Conservatives have trailed Labour by double digits.
Not surprisingly given the political climate, a huge number of Conservative MPs, including many senior figures who have served as top cabinet ministers, have already announced thatThe Conservative MPs who remain are, increasingly, resorting to Trump-style attacks on what they see as “woke culture” in a last-ditch effort to reanchor their political fortunes. They have ramped up. They have amplified their rhetoric about the U.K.’s way of life purportedly being under assault from “Islamists.
There is also some talk — probably fantasy — of a leadership challenge from the right, aimed at ousting Sunak as prime minister and installing another Tory leader going into the election.
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