Fraser Nelson Fraser Nelson

Red Theresa

The Prime Minister’s election strategy is simply to discard ideology

Never has the Conservative party been more confident about winning a general election. Theresa May’s popularity ratings have broken all records; her aim in this campaign is not just to defeat the Labour party but to destroy it. The Tory MPs who talk about ten years in power are the more cautious ones; some talk about staying in government until the 2040s.

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