How can Liz Truss hope to influence the Conservative election manifesto when even the name of her new faction is a contradiction in terms?

She is calling it “Popular Conservatism” – at a time when there is no such thing.

In any case, a far-right-wing faction like hers would not be popular in any meaningful way – other than among its cheerleaders and members like Jacob Rees-Mogg, Simon Clarke and Ranil Jayawardena.

Apparently the idea is to influence the Tory manifesto ahead of the forthcoming general election.

Well, this new mob will have its work cut out for it, jostling to be heard above the European Research Group, the New Conservatives, the Common Sense Group, the Northern Research Group, the National Conservatives and the Conservative Growth Group (which was the last such organisation to be started by Truss).

This Writer says: let them all try. The Tory Party is already a minority interest group, and splitting it into smaller groups that each represent even tinier interests can only help ensure their annihilation at the ballot box.

Source: Liz Truss to launch new group in bid to push Rishi Sunak on Tory manifesto | The Independent

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