The Margaret Thatcher Impersonation Contest

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : Disraeli, in contrast, was in favor of protectionism because it maintained the established order, which he believed served all those in society -- the monarch and the multitude.
57% : Here we are in 2022, with a host of new problems to address: war in Europe, the ongoing effects of a once-in-a-century pandemic, inflation at a 40-year high, an aging population, Brexit, and a bubbling political crisis in Northern Ireland.
57% : Truss has chosen political infidelity: Once a supporter of the Liberal Democrats and of Britain's membership in the EU, she is now a hard-line conservative who says she was wrong to have ever backed Remain, pursuing Brexit with the zealous certainty of a convert.
48% : Disraeli was a firebrand radical, fiercely opposed to the first ever "Conservative" prime minister, Robert Peel, who had split the Tory party by supporting free trade over tariffs.
46% : For Sunak, that means adhering to fiscal conservatism to tackle inflation; for Truss, it means cutting taxes to go for growth.
45% : It offered a referendum on Britain's membership to the European Union but did not know how to follow through on the result; it negotiated, signed, and ratified a Brexit divorce deal whose consequences it now disavows; and it won its biggest majority in 30 years on a pledge to rebalance the country's economy and rip up the old orthodoxy -- only to now balk at the costs of doing so.
42% : During this Conservative era, Britain has become poorer, taxes have gone up, and wages have stagnated.
39% : And yet, during this time, the Tory party has been able to successfully reinvent itself thanks to Brexit, winning a once-in-a-generation majority to reform the country in the process.
39% : Truss is a believer in liberty, markets, global free trade, and capital.
38% : Brexit, in its most essential sense, is an expression of a nation, a cry against the change happening within the EU undermining the traditions of a people.

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