This is the Guardian.

Today, the Rishi Sunak era isn't even over, but his party is already fighting over what comes next.

As Russell Crowe says in the film Gladiator, a clip I regularly play for my staff, hold the line.

Stay with me, what we do in life echoes in eternity.

Will your life echo hollow with...

In a conference hall in London this week, we've been getting a vision of a possible future for the country's conservatives.

And it's quite something.

But I see no reason why every other country in the world should be prevented from feeling pride in itself, because the Germans marked up twice in a century.

Oof, the Guardian's deputy political editor, Peter Walker, has been there.

The National Conservative in Conference, which everyone calls a Natcon, it's a slightly strange event populated by this mixture of very earnest looking kind of middle-aged US think tankers and some quite young and keen looking British men.

There are some women, but not many, I think it's probably 80% men.

Speakers have covered the gamut from history to the economy to messages from the other side.

Lady Thatcher and I have been communing about national conservatism in this new movement, and I'm happy to report that she is totally on board.

We've heard about what's really ailing the UK.

No, it's not climate change. It's not Russia or China or Iran.

It's not the neo-Marxist ideology that is so weakened our institutions.

It's not inflation or taxation or poor productivity.

No, there is one critical outcome that liberal individualism has completely failed to deliver, and that is babies.

End for the faithful, stirring calls to action.

How much do you love your country? How much do you love the values that you claim to defend?

Do you love them enough to tweet under your own name? Do you love them enough to change your child's school to one that's less woke and ignore the impact on your social status?

The whole feel was like being plunged into this kind of alternative reality where British conservatists and was maybe 40% run by slightly Trump leaning US rights wingers.

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