Britain's Conservative Party May Now Be Dying, and That's Probably for the Best
By Ward Clark | 5:29 PM on February 23, 2026
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The United Kingdom doesn't have the same, more or less locked-in two party system we do. But for much of recent history, the Brits have had two primary political parties to choose from: On the left, Labour, and on the right, the Conservatives. Bear in mind that the center in Britain is a little to the left of the center in the United States.
Nowadays, though, Britain's Conservative Party is getting to be a little like Joe Biden's presidency: Directionless, befuddled, and failing.
No political party survives for more than two centuries without a capacity for reinvention. Thatcher’s free-market economics and individualism stood in stark contrast with Benjamin Disraeli’s paternalistic, “one nation” social reforms. Edward Heath (1970–1974) took Britain into the European Economic Community (EEC); Boris Johnson (2019–2022) brought us out.
All this shapeshifting makes it hard to match up the beliefs of even the most celebrated Conservative leaders with an enduring philosophy of Conservatism. Both Roger Scruton and Michael Oakeshott, for example, emphasized the importance of tradition and continuity over radical change, and civil society over the machinations of the state. The Conservative, Scruton writes, knows that “we have collectively inherited good things” that “are easily destroyed, but not easily created.”
All this shapeshifting makes it hard to match up the beliefs of even the most celebrated Conservative leaders with an enduring philosophy of Conservatism. Both Roger Scruton and Michael Oakeshott, for example, emphasized the importance of tradition and continuity over radical change, and civil society over the machinations of the state. The Conservative, Scruton writes, knows that “we have collectively inherited good things” that “are easily destroyed, but not easily created.”
Fortunately, there's an up-and-coming alternative: Nigel Farage's Reform Party.
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