British Conservatives offer Republicans a populist recipe for success

Published May 13, 2021 9:48am ET



Republicans must look to the British Conservative populism for future success.

Take what happened in last Thursday’s special election in Hartlepool, England. The Conservatives, or Tories, claimed a working-class district that had voted for the left-wing Labour Party for decades. But this was just the latest in a series of victories for Boris Johnson’s Conservatives. Thanks to this success, what was once known as Labour’s “red wall” is now political rubble.

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