#030 - Mark Littlewood - Where The Conservative Party Went Wrong?
The Peter McCormack Show
Peter McCormack
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2024
⏱️ 115 minutes
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Summary
Mark Littlewood, a prominent libertarian commentator and Director General of the Institute of Economic Affairs, is renowned for his advocacy of free-market policies and individual freedoms.
As the Conservative Party grapples with a crisis of identity and waning public trust, with voters increasingly turning to Reform UK for solutions, we dive into the deep challenges facing Britain today. From the country's fractured political landscape to the rise of populist conservatism, we examine how bloated government and relentless bureaucracy are stifling progress. Mark presents a vision for the future, offering bold proposals such as institutional reform, addressing the nation's spiralling public debt, and reigniting the core principles of conservatism.
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| 0:00.0 | The Conservative Party brand has been catastrophically tarnished. People stop listening to the |
| 0:04.4 | Tory party. I've just had enough of them. I wouldn't consider voting for them. What a shower, |
| 0:07.8 | what a rabble, what a shambles, all of the rest of it. I think that the centre right needs to |
| 0:12.8 | start being anti-establishment. And this is going to be quite a pivot for the Conservative Party. |
| 0:19.2 | In my broad view, if you look at the rest of |
| 0:21.7 | the Western world, that the right is remaking itself in that image. Although you can't look at |
| 0:27.8 | problems and demographics in one country and just hit Control C, Control V, and cut and paste it |
| 0:34.6 | onto the UK, seems to me that there are so many examples of this, |
| 0:39.5 | that the new message and approach of the centre-right needs to be one, |
| 0:43.9 | which is the present system is broken and needs to be completely overhauled. |
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