Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on Economist Radio. I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

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a long to a pre-election rally hosted by President Donald Trump. How much will the polls

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First, it's been a bruising six days in Britain's parliament. Fighting over Brexit has left

the world's oldest political party reeling. When 21 conservative members refused to support

keeping a no-deal Brexit on the table, Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister, expelled them.

Two cabinet resignations followed, Mr. Johnson's own brother Joe and Amber Rudd, the work

in pension secretary. Many Tories have looked on with horror at what is unfolded, not only

at the sacking of some of its most esteemed and moderate members, but at what looks like

the party's lurch to the right. Some lay the blame at the door of Dominic Cummings, Mr.

Johnson's senior adviser and the man that many believe to be the person really running

the country. I've been brought out here today because I am absolutely furious at the Conservative

party, namely Dominic Cummings and Boris Johnson. Ed Shackle is a young conservative, a

remainder and one of a group protesting outside the party's headquarters in Westminster.

They have turned what was a moderate party into a hard-right party. A party that doesn't

represent its members, a party where to be someone like Ken Clark or Nicola Stoem's

church as grandson, has been kicked out because they're not supporting a no-deal Brexit,

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