Liz Truss: A Stable hand bearing a revolutionary break from the Blairite Consensus. 

London (YPI) -- A battle over who is more the Thatcherite seems to have arisen in the Tory Leadership Contest. And Thatcherism can be respected. But the issue with pursuing it as an absolute model is that it forms a “perverse inability to not frame [the current issues] in the terms of the 1980s” as Francisc, an Independent Truss favourer, declared to be the main weakness of Liz Truss. He went on to claim that this inability will “stifle her vision”. 

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The former leader of the Tories during Blair’s Premiership, Iain Duncan Smith championed the idea that “You should want the public to respect you. Not to love you. You can fall out of love.” He said this in promoting Truss’ campaign. 

One must actively try not to respect Truss, whereas respecting her comes more naturally. Truss could create an effective juxtaposition with Starmer’s lack of conviction. She has the bold conviction and respectable courage “to break with the Blairite consensus of the past 20 years” as Francisc perceived. 

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                                                          An iron conviction derived certainly from her hero Thatcher, steadies her revolutionary                                                                    hand adding strength to her cause. “She’s more revolutionary than she’s been given credit                                                             for whilst still maintaining a stable hand,” said Francisc on Liz Truss.

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                                                           A YPI poll conducted found that a plurality of 35.7% of participants did wish to support the                                                             Conservative Party in the 2024 general election. A majority of whom, however,                                                                                 disapproved of Johnson and thus the current direction of the Conservative Party as of the                                                               present. A revolutionary candidate willing to challenge the orthodoxy could aid the                                                                         Conservatives electorally.

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                                                          One can quite easily blame the Conservative party for whatever problems they see to have arisen. But they have simply borne the effects of Blair’s premiership. And they have bought into the “Blairite Consensus”, lacking the great determined will of the Iron Lady, fearing electoral consequences. Thus governing in electoral cowardice. Now the Tories can find a rupture from destructive Blairism in Liz Truss