Britain’s Best Bet, With the ‘Collectivist Direction’ of Recent Governments, Is a Defiant Brexit Bloc

Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party appears to be in a position to benefit from the Conservative disarray.

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Prime Ministers Starmer, right, and Sunak during the State Opening of Parliament, July 17, 2024. AP/Alberto Pezzali, pool

Few surprises were on offer at the King’s Speech presented in the House of Lords Wednesday, in which Charles III read out the agenda of his Labour-led government. Highlights of Prime Minister  Starmer’s plans include re-nationalizing the railways, establishing a state-sponsored energy corporation, tackling the housing crisis through planning reform, plus raising taxes on the petroleum industry and private education to fund further intervention.

An unexpected feature of the Labour program is the recycling of legislation from the preceding Conservative ministry of Rishi Sunak. Counted among them are smoking bans and energy drink restrictions on young adults. “Nanny State” impulses, it turns out, are bipartisan.

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