När nu Boris Johnson lyckligtvis lämnar posterna som premiärminister och ledare för det Konservativa partiet finns i kampen om vem som ska ta över slutligen två kandidater, förre finansministern Rishi Sunak och utrikesministern Liz Truss.
Stephen Davies på den marknadsliberala tankesmedjan Institute of Economic Affairs har en intressant artikel på The UnPopulist om de olika fraktionerna i tories och vad som kan hända framöver.
”Much can be said about Johnson’s character, about how his personal lack of seriousness exemplifies the merging of politics and media in contemporary Britain, and about how his toppling shows the difficulty of repeatedly flouting the powerful collegial traditions of Westminster. But these are not what we should focus on. Johnson’s short and eventful premiership was a key stage in two connected historical processes: the increasing subordination of economic issues to cultural divisions over identity and nationalism, and the stubborn resistance to this realignment by powerful forces in British society.
This conflict, presently on display in the Conservative Party, will most likely lead in coming years to a moderately populist Conservative Party and a more cosmopolitan, progressive Labour Party. While both parties will pose difficulties for limited-government classical liberals, these new alignments in response to Britain’s Brexit-inspired populism will be better for the country than an independent populist party acting as a free radical in the body politic. They will also be less dangerous than the populist situations in the United States and in several Continental countries, such as France and Italy.”
Andrew Lilico har en artikel i The Spectator, som försvarar Liz Truss ekonomiska politik. Truss har profilerat sig som kandidaten ”for free trade, free enterprise and free markets”. Vad denna ekonomiska liberalism konkret kommer att innebära, ifall hon blir vald, återstår att se, liksom hennes åsikter i en del andra frågor.