The author argues that the Conservative Party's response to its recent electoral defeat suggests they are operating in an alternate reality detached from facts and evidence. Instead of analyzing their failings, candidates offer simplistic explanations based on ideology rather than data.
Kemi Badenoch’s comments on maternity pay are an example of the strange place the Conservative Party is in
In their universe, though, freed from the confines of reality, none of this is happening. Instead, candidates are throwing out simplistic, off-the-shelf diagnoses based not on any hard evidence but their own ideological preferences. Rather than facing up to the scale of their defeat, the Tories are busy confusing what they want to be true with what actually is.
Their verdicts on why the Tories lost skate over questions of integrity and competence and end up instead at ideology: they were ousted bybecause they simply weren’t right-wing enough. No matter that the Conservatives actually lost more support to parties to their left than to their right – that is the diagnosis that the Tory party appears to have settled on.
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