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Traditional party of power or a populist platform: The choice facing Britain’s Tories
After its massive election defeat, the Conservative Party has to deal with an identity crisis.
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The most successful electoral party in the West is suffering an identity crisis, says the writer.
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Martin Ivens
Bereavement is said to be typically followed by five stages – denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance.
Many Tories are still markedly in the denial stage after the party’s worst electoral defeat in its long history. Anger is sure to follow a period of eerie calm following Thursday’s plebiscite.
