The revolt last weekend by Tory backbenchers and Sunday’s concerned Telegraph leader provided a timely warning shot across the bows of a Conservative leadership steering in diametrically the wrong direction. Having adopted socialist fiscal policies, the Johnson government is now also imposing an extreme “woke” legislative agenda. Its proposed new legislation to “ban conversion therapy”, the cause of the backbench backlash and the Telegraph’s concern, is a Trojan horse.
Years of budget deficits have bloated the government’s debt pile
All developed economies face the same problem: how to manage the ever-rising tide of welfare and medical spending.