Has Kemi Badenoch sounded the death knell for one nation Conservatism?
by Eleni Courea Political correspondent from World news | The Guardian on (#70JMY)
The Tory leader's shift to the right has left its centrist wing wondering if its tradition still has a future
In one popular reading of the history of Tory successes, the party's last three election-winning prime ministers - John Major, David Cameron and Boris Johnson - all swept into Downing Street on unifying one-nation platforms.
But for many people this year's Tory conference, marked by its hardening rhetoric on asylum seekers and growing overtures to Nigel Farage's brand of politics, feels a far cry from those broad principles.
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