Why Boris Johnson's Tories fell for a tiny sect of libertarian provocateurs | Andy Beckett

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The combative contrarian rhetoric of the defunct RCP has long been all over the media. Now it’s in No 10 as well, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

So much seems unusual about this Conservative government: its constant disruptiveness; its preference for rhetoric over functional policies; its mixture of brazen U-turns and cult-like discipline; its flirtations with the far right alongside leftwing-sounding plans to “level up”; its deadly reluctance to curtail small freedoms in a pandemic.

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