How are millionaire property developers and retired homeowners finding common cause in the Conservatives? The answer isn’t shared cultural values, argues Samuel Earle – it’s a shared investment in the housing market.
From his “let the bodies pile high” remarks to refurb-gate, Boris Johnson is once again mired in scandal. But rather than being any mortal wound to his prime ministership, the controversies speak to a much bigger problem at the heart of British politics: what counts as corruption, and how little it seems to matter, writes Samuel Earle.
Excluding Tony Blair’s back-to-back victories, the Conservative Party has governed the UK for all but 18 of the last 100 years. While the media often presents elections as Labour’s to lose, the truth is that Britain is a one party state which occasionally lets the other side have a go in the interest of fairness. […]
Boris Johnson and Keir Starmer share a willingness to forgo principles in order to win votes. In the second piece of a new series on the Tories and how they hold on to power, Samuel Earle explains why this strategy is working for one but not the other.
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