Conservative Party

British Tories Should Watch Trump 2.0 Closely

Conservatives on both sides of the Atlantic share the same hopes and the same challenges. There is no doubt that Conservatives in the United Kingdom are watching with intent interest...

Rishi Sunak Set to Replace Liz Truss as Prime Minister

History was made in the United Kingdom on Monday as it became clear that Rishi Sunak will be the nation’s next prime minister. According to Axios, Sunak has emerged today...

British Prime Minister Liz Truss Resigns After 6 Weeks in Office

British prime minister Liz Truss on Thursday became the shortest-serving leader in the country’s political history after she resigned forty-five days into the job, Reuters reported. The forty-seven-year-old Truss, formally...

Britain’s Broken Economy Broke Liz Truss

Liz Truss has announced her resignation after only a few weeks as Britain’s prime minister. Truss’ premiership has been on life support since the announcement of her mini-budget last month...

Could Liz Truss Usher in a New Era of European Centrism?

Liz Truss is the new leader of the Conservative Party and prime minister of Britain. During her campaign to win over party members, she adopted genuinely conservative policies. The flagship...

Thatcher 2.0? Liz Truss Becomes Britain’s New Prime Minister

Liz Truss has won the Conservative party leadership contest to succeed Boris Johnson as prime minister of the United Kingdom. Johnson, who was elected in a landslide in 2019, stepped...

Is Liz Truss Ready to Defuse Northern Ireland?

As the campaign to win the leadership of the British Conservative Party moves on, momentum is building behind Liz Truss. Consistently ahead in Conservative membership polls and regularly racking up...

Boris Johnson’s Legacy? Defeating Jeremy Corbyn

It seems strange now but in 2019, Britain was almost ruled by a man whom the majority of British Jews considered an anti-Semite, whose foreign policy positions were closer to...

The Kremlin Gloats Over Boris Johnson’s Downfall

In the hours after British prime minister Boris Johnson announced on Thursday that he would resign as leader of the Conservative Party—a move that cleared the way for the election...

Theresa May’s Endless Unforced Errors

Theresa May’s latest Brexit setback—this time over the Irish border issue—confirms the impression of May as an accident-prone British prime minister who is out of her depth as her country’s...

How Theresa May Became Britain’s Mitt Romney

Wanted: Candidates for higher office who can exhibit traces of humanity. Charisma and warmth not necessary; candor and conviction required. Applicants must demonstrate an ability to show voters who they...

May’s Conservatives May Take a Hit at the Polls

British prime minister Theresa May has called a snap election for June 8. This is a strategic move on her part. Polls show that her Conservative Party is well ahead...