{"id":477021,"date":"2025-10-06T00:40:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T00:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/477021\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T00:40:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T00:40:18","slug":"fearing-farage-britains-conservatives-go-full-trump-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/477021\/","title":{"rendered":"Fearing Farage, Britain\u2019s Conservatives go full Trump \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It all marks another lurch towards Reform UK\u2019s tough border and anti-net-zero rhetoric, going much further rightward than Badenoch \u2014 who has tried to accommodate the ideological battle in her party when forming policy \u2014 has previously.\u00a0The Conservatives are\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/europe-poll-of-polls\/united-kingdom\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">trailing Nigel Farage\u2019s Reform UK by 14 points in the polls,<\/a> and remain four points behind the deeply-unpopular ruling Labour Party.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But they also bring the party dramatically closer to the politics of Donald Trump, and away from the traditional liberal center ground of Tory \u2014 and U.K. \u2014 politics.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Trying to find the old \u2018economy, stupid\u2019 voters<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In Manchester, senior Conservatives acknowledge it is a major departure for a party which has historically found success and prided itself on appealing to a broad church of voters. But after a landslide loss last year in which party was unceremoniously booted out of office after 14 years running the country, Tories are grappling with the reality that, as in the U.S., the center appears to have evaporated.<\/p>\n<p>One Tory strategist, granted anonymity like others in this piece to speak candidly about internal party discussions, argued their policy pivot reflected that of the British public. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Overton Window has shifted,\u201d the strategist said, referencing the model for understanding how ideas in society change over time and influence politics.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Former Home Secretary Grant Shapps, a self-confessed \u201ccentrist\u201d who lost his seat to the ruling Labour Party at the last election, agreed it is crucial to address the political impact of undocumented migration as well as the reality on the ground: \u201cI genuinely think that until a government, no matter what party, gets a grip of this issue, public trust in governance will never come back.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It all marks another lurch towards Reform UK\u2019s tough border and anti-net-zero rhetoric, going much further rightward than&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477022,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[1213,768,748,1194,2813,2311,30,8514,32,33,5398,7964,393,3976,61826,4884,40,1198,51100,6657,3739,384,1144,45,20984,2343,712,16,15,49,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-477021","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-americas","10":"tag-borders","11":"tag-britain","12":"tag-budget","13":"tag-carbon","14":"tag-climate-change","15":"tag-courts","16":"tag-customs","17":"tag-donald-trump","18":"tag-elections","19":"tag-emissions","20":"tag-enforcement","21":"tag-england","22":"tag-governance","23":"tag-grant-shapps","24":"tag-great-britain","25":"tag-immigration","26":"tag-kemi-badenoch","27":"tag-mel-stride","28":"tag-migration","29":"tag-net-zero","30":"tag-nigel-farage","31":"tag-northern-ireland","32":"tag-playbook","33":"tag-priti-patel","34":"tag-research","35":"tag-scotland","36":"tag-uk","37":"tag-united-kingdom","38":"tag-united-states","39":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115324441348165072","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}