The resignation of Liz Truss after just 44 days as UK Prime Minister has left the Conservative Party’s future uncertain, with Nigel Farage declaring the Party “dead” and others argued that the party must evolve to meet the challenges of the new “movement”. .”
“The British Conservative Party is over, it’s dead,” Farage told Fox News Digital. “After 200 years of existence, it now serves no purpose. Space is opening up for new center-right political movements.”
Truss announced his resignation just one day after declaring he was a “fighter and not a quitter,” bowing to party pressure and launching a leadership election “in the next week.” She backtracked on a number of tax cuts outlined in her ‘mini-budget’ and saw the pound’s value fall to record lows, provoking a strong reaction from markets, with Truss Chancellor Kwasi Kwarten was forced to dismiss.
Some believe that the matter goes beyond the truss and that the party has lost its way. Lance Forman, a former Conservative MP and Brexit MP in the European Parliament, told Fox News Digital that the Conservatives “do more to the center or the left”.
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“You know, there’s pretty much a situation where the old workers are fighting the new workers because the new real conservatives have left,” Forman said, adding, “It’s a very rapidly changing situation.” It’s a little crazy at the moment. ”
Mr Farage, the ringleader of the European Parliament’s Brexit party ‘reform Britain’, posted a video on Twitter on Thursday in which he urged Party “Big Guns” To join him in helping “replace” the Conservative Party, he says he “cannot do this” on his own.
Foreman said it would be “extremely difficult” and “nearly impossible” to start a new party in the current system, but there was “so much frustration” with the Conservatives that there was a clear path forward. I admitted no.
“A lot of people are blaming … what’s going on [with] Budgets, certainly with our economy, but just looking around the world interest rates are rising and there’s a lot going on right now,” Forman continued. “Is there room for a new political party? Will the Conservative Party split. That’s hard.”
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Some analysts have dismissed the idea that the best way forward is to kill “the most successful political party in the Western Hemisphere.”
Alan Mendoza, executive director of the Henry Jackson Society, told Fox News Digital that the Conservative Party can survive as it has in the past “by constantly reforming”.
“The Conservatives may be in for a period of reform, and a period of reform can lead to their defeat, but I don’t believe for a moment that they will be replaced,” Mendoza said.
He points to other periods of party weakness, such as the 1990s after Tony Blair’s “devastating defeat” against the “New Labor” movement, and argues that the party “has been able to come together again.” The real problem, according to Mendoza, is the government, not the political party.
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“I think the party now is clearly shocking the system. Form of truss-onomics And what Liz Truss was trying to do before that… but if you recall, Boris Johnson won a majority of around 80 seats in the UK Parliament in 2019, which was a very large majority.
Mr Mendoza concluded: “It is clear that the ability to govern has been constrained by having already had to reform itself as a party to deal with the problems of both the north and the south within the UK.” “It seems strange to think that the Conservative Party is over after just three years.”
Nile Gardiner, director of The Heritage Foundation’s Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom, agreed with Mendoza’s assessment, saying the British government was “in a frightening state of crisis and turmoil”.
Gardiner told Fox News Digital that the Conservative Party will continue to be the largest right-wing force and will retain a parliamentary majority. “at this point, [they] With more than 70 MPs, even if a new party emerges on the right … it could split the right-wing vote, and a new party on the right would undermine the Conservative Party, but it would be a good choice for the Conservative Party. It will never be replaced. right-wing ruling forces. ”
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On the future, Gardiner said recently appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer, Jeremy Hunt, is “arguably the most powerful politician” in the UK and is shaping policy over the past few days, but ultimately It remains unclear who will eventually become who in the future. Directly replace the truss.
But whoever takes over will face the challenge of reuniting the party and putting together a government that appears to be “on the brink of collapse.”