Tag: Conservative Party leadership race

Liz Truss May Have the Edge Over Rishi Sunak but ‘Foreign Policy Doesn’t Win Elections’: Experts

Conservative Party members are voting for who will become their next leader and succeed Boris Johnson as prime minister, but what difference will it make if the government is led by Liz Truss or Rishi Sunak? The Epoch Times spoke to Matthew Lesh, the head of public policy at the Institute for Economic Affairs, Stepan…


Intelligence Services Vet Conservative Party Ballot

Commentary While Democrats continue to claim that 2020 was the fairest election in U.S. history and push for even less restrictions on postal voting in the midterms, the UK is starting to take electoral fraud more seriously. As the Conservative Party leadership race to replace Boris Johnson reaches its final stage, all 160,000 Conservative members…


These Days of Openness and Transparency

Commentary  One should not ask, said Bismarck, how sausages or politics are made. This, of course, goes completely against the modern cult of transparency, supposedly the guarantor not only of clean government but also of democracy itself. If everything were transparent, nobody could do anything wrong (goes the theory), and our choices would be perfectly…


A Defence Policy Speech for the Next Tory Leader

Commentary Yet another candidate has lurched into the federal Conservative Party leadership contest boasting about the winnability of his winning winnery. It is not clear whether Canadians’ appetite for such cliches, such as it was, has diminished. But since the Ukraine crisis seems to have opened an Overton window to more serious discussion, here’s a…