The Guardian view on the Conservative conference: an exercise in diverting blame for failure | Editorial

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : Brexit sabotaged the economy with no practical gain in sovereignty.
59% : Mr Sunak might eke some electoral advantage out of the attempt to oppose speed limits and anti-pollution measures as a crusade for motorists' liberty, but such fixations suggest the prime minister lacks bigger ideas.
55% : It is sometimes liberal and sometimes nationalist; obsessed with global status but resentful of international obligations; rhetorically committed to public services and environmental protection but ideologically allergic to the kinds of state intervention that would honour those commitments.
55% : Brexit is the paradigmatic expression of those contradictions and an impediment to their resolution.
52% : She then imposed policies derived more from her own ideological fantasies than any published manifesto.
46% : Since 2016, the Tories have become increasingly radicalised in a doctrine that promised a kind of heroic national renewal that was unavailable by means of separation from the EU.
46% : Conservatism is looking like a spent force in government.

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