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The Tory Party Has Turned Into a Conservative Clown Show
History won’t be kind to the right-wing political spectacle unfolding before the UK.
A protestor is escorted from the stage after interrupting a keynote speech by Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg during the National Conservatism conference.
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Political parties can survive all sorts of problems and still win elections. They can survive bad leaders. They can survive disastrous local election results. They can even survive economic crises. But, in Britain at least, what they cannot survive is becoming a clown show.
This is what happened to Labour under Jeremy Corbyn.