Britain’s Conservatives are on the road to the Apocalypse
The polls are now so bad for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak that people are starting to talk about an epochal wipeout, and a reshaping of the British right.
British politics has felt like a soap opera for quite some time now. So perhaps the emergence of a former Neighbours star as a leading political weathervane should come as no surprise.
Melbourne-born Holly Vallance generated a mini-whirlwind of media in Britain last month with an appearance at PopCon, a new Tory splinter cell comprising diehard Brexiteers and supporters of spectacularly short-lived prime minister Liz Truss.
Hans van LeeuwenJournalistHans van Leeuwen is The Australian Financial Review’s former Europe correspondent. He is now International Economy editor for The Telegraph UK.
