The Conservatives have major political differences – and a major ideological divide
for young people a “free vote”, with MPs explicitly allowed to break the party line in order to vote with their conscience, Rishi Sunak avoided turning it into a test of his authority.
The other effect is to highlight to huge philosophical divide that exists among the Tories. For many Conservative MPs, the party is the defender of liberty or it is nothing: knowing that Labour is always likely to push regulation forwards, they see the need to drag that regulatory frontier back. When the Conservatives are winning, this is hardly a problem. Buoyed by power, the disparate bands within the party are willing to ignore their differences and focus on their tribal loyalty to each other – just look at the way Sir Keir Starmer has papered over the ideological cracks in Labour.
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