It’s no secret that Britain has in recent years been something of a mess. Yet the Conservative Party’s popularity continues unabated. Why don’t British voters blame Boris Johnson or his party for the chaos of Brexit, a botched pandemic response, or surging poverty? And why have the Tories been so successful over the decades? On Episode 27 of The Politics of Everything, hosts Laura Marsh and Alex Pareene talk to Samuel Earle and Ash Sarkar, two British journalists, about what explains the Tories’ extraordinary dominance.

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