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Is “National Conservatism” a dead end for the Tories, or a sign of what is to come?

Rishi Sunak may be tempted by an ideology of muscular nationalism – but he would risk alienating British voters.

By Andrew Marr

The right doesn’t sleep. It fails, it goes back to basics; but it thinks again; keeps going. These days, it thinks harder than the left. It treats as trivial many things the left takes seriously – fairness, the climate emergency. Its characteristic tone is joshing. But about power it is always serious.

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