Newsletter #38: Can the Tories still undo their catastrophic, Kemi Badenoch-sized mistake?

PLUS: Reform's welfarist turn

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Today, we analyse Reform’s recent (speculated?) leftward economic turn, and wonder whether it’s too late for the Tories to make a comeback.

This newsletter’s agenda: Can the Tories still undo their catastrophic, Kemi Badenoch-sized mistake? (paid); Reform’s welfarist turn: should we be concerned? (paid)

Can the Tories still undo their catastrophic, Kemi Badenoch-sized mistake?