Who in Britain Could Wear the Garb of Benjamin Disraeli?
Our Brexit Diarist reflects on the principles of his hero.
Dizzy, where are you? Your party needs you, and no less bereft of your leadership skills, the country needs you, too. And to readers of the Sun, your Brexit Diarist marks Benjamin Disraeli’s birth in 1804 by considering three pressing issues for British Tories.
First, whither contemporary Conservatives? Disraeli was a constant opponent of what he called “cosmopolitanism.” Yet such deracinated conservatism has, to all intents and purposes, overtaken his party.
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