The modern Tory party’s uncompromising nature has deep historical roots
Edmund Burke and Silicon Valley make for a potent combination
TODAY’S CONSERVATIVES are always smashing things up or threatening to smash things up. Having taken on the BBC, the civil service, Parliament and the Supreme Court, the government has now graduated to international law. Boris Johnson is so determined to reverse elements of the withdrawal agreement with the European Union—an agreement that he negotiated, signed and campaigned on in the general election—that he is willing to break the terms of it. If this means leaving the EU without a deal that would be a “good outcome for the UK”, according to Mr Johnson.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Revolutionary conservatism”
Britain September 12th 2020
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