How Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives have begun to embrace ‘textbook populism’

Recent Tory discourse and rhetoric displays key far-right markers, says expert on populist politics

Suella Braverman's Conservative conference speech could have been delivered by a populist, far-right continental leader such as Marine Le Pen and there are strong signs that is the way the party may be heading, European political scientists have said.

The UK home secretary warned delegates in Manchester this week of a hurricane" of mass migration, suggested the Human Rights Act should be renamed the Criminal Rights Act" and attacked the luxury beliefs" of a privileged woke minority".