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    10 months ago

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    In a speech in the grand surroundings of Westminster’s Emmanuel Centre, Ms Truss said successive Tory governments had failed “to stand up for Conservative values”.

    She told a hall packed with Britain’s leading right wingers, including Professor David Starkey and Vote Leave director Matthew Elliott, that the Popular Conservatism movement would challenge “wokery” and, ultimately, “restore faith in democracy”.

    In broad terms, the Pop Con argument is that Conservatives have been blocked from cutting taxes, cracking down on immigration and doing a lot of other things that they say people want by a network of unelected bodies who are undermining democracy.

    Chief among the villains are the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), which blocked deportations to Rwanda, and the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), which helped sink Ms Truss’s “radical” tax cutting programme.

    Lee Anderson - who recently resigned as Conservative deputy chairman - took aim at COP 28, adding ordinary voters in his Ashfield constituency did not lie awake at night worrying about whether the UK would meet its net zero targets.

    Tory election candidate Mhairi Fraser laid into the “nanny state”, including Mr Sunak’s “ludicrous” plan to ban cigarette sales.


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