Tory radicals see a revolution as the path back to power but the pattern has been firmly set since 1922
The writer is an FT contributing editor Defeat hides a silver lining. Opposition presents an opportunity. Britain’s Labour left understood this when James Callaghan fell to defeat in 1979. Callaghan, party critics cried out, had been insufficiently socialist in fighting Margaret Thatcher’s Conservatives. The English nationalists on the right of the Tory party are now poised to repeat their mistake.
Omitted from this story is the inconvenient fact that the rupture cost the Canadian right 13 years in opposition — they returned to power in 2006 only after Harper’s breakaway group had reunited with the more mainstream Progressive Conservatives. Today’s Tory plotting is still more indifferent to past British experience — history has never been a populist strong suit.
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