The

The Hello and welcome to politics theory other. My name is Alex Doherty and my guest today is

Phil Burton Cartledge. We talked about the ongoing crisis of the British

Conservative Party and whether there is a way back for the party that has dominated British

politics for two centuries. We talked about whether the failings of Conservative leader

Kemi Badenock are particular to her or merely a reflection of deeper lying structural problems.

And we discuss why it is that Nigel Farage's Reform Party has proven more successful

in occupying the populist right space in UK politics.

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Phil Burton Cartlidge teaches sociology at the University of Derby and is the author of The Parties Over, the Rise and Fall of the Conservatives,

from Thatcher to Sunac.

So, Phil, we're speaking the day after the commencement of the Conservative Party's

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