Why the Conservative Party is broken
An unrepresentative membership has shifted the party’s centre firmly to the nationalistic and authoritarian right.
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Tim Bale
Tim Bale is a professor of politics at Queen Mary and the author of numerous books on British politics. The most recent is The Conservative Party after Brexit: Turmoil and Transformation.
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