Conservatives

The Prospect Podcast #184: The new Conservatives, with Rachel Sylvester

The party endlessly reinvents itself with each new leader. But what do Boris Johnson's Tories really believe in?

June 15, 2021
Photo: Xinhua / Alamy Stock Photo
Photo: Xinhua / Alamy Stock Photo

Ever since emerging in the late 17th century, the Tories have restlessly reinvented themselves, shamelessly shape-shifted and shown a Lazarus-like ability to rise from political death. David Cameron talked about a “big society” while Theresa May railed against “burning injustices.” So what—if anything—does the party under Boris Johnson believe in? Rachel Sylvester joins the Prospect Interview to talk about the party's latest reinvention, why Boris Johnson may become a victim of his own success, and the PM’s journalist past. 

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