"This is a naked conservatism that believes in itself with such fervour it thinks facts should make way for its fantasies. Borrowing for tax cuts in a period of surging inflation was always going to spook the markets, but Truss’s faith told her otherwise. She was determined to jump off the cliff, insistent that all the talk of gravity was so much stuffy scientific "orthodoxy". The refusal to bow to empirical evidence, to reality, is Truss conservatism’s defining feature. Its origins are not mysterious. We might call it Brexitism: the creed that holds that the real world, even the facts of geography, can be bent to your will, just by closing your eyes and wishing it were so."
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Prime Ministers of the United KingdomPoliticians from EnglandMembers of the Parliament of the United KingdomConservative Party (UK) politiciansGovernment ministers of the United Kingdom
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Jonathan Freedland "Fair play to Truss: stripped of competence or compassion, her extremism is refreshingly clear" The Guardian (7 October 2022).
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