Changing of the Guard – Asia Report

At their worst, the British Conservatives are retreating. Are they on the verge of extinction, as the sympathetic newspaper The Telegraph pointed out after publishing a survey predicting a Labour victory a month before 4 July? The British, tied to the disappointment of Brexit, once again have a Labour Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, 61, closer to the moderate centre-left of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown than to the radical left of Jeremy Corbyn, who was expelled from the party. In the last 14 years, David Cameron, Theresa May, Boris Johnson, Elizabeth Truss and Rishi Sunak, all Tories, have succeeded each other in office.

The changing of the guard does not respond to divorce through the English Channel from 1 January 2021, which most Britons have moved on from, but to its consequences. If the United Kingdom would have remained in the European Unionthe economy would not fall by 4% in the long term, as estimated by the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBRits acronym in English). Immigration, another worrying issue, ceased from the continent, but increased from other latitudes, such as India. A failure of the motto Stop The Boatswhich fostered divisions between England, Scotland, Gales e North Ireland. A disunited kingdom.

The last Conservative Prime Minister, Sunak, of Indian origin, came to power breaking moulds: he was, at 42 years old, the youngest in two centuries and the first in history who was neither white nor Christian. During his administration, the National Health Service (NHSin English) was on the verge of bankruptcy, with the consequent disadvantage for the British due to the difficulty in recruiting nurses; cardiac and pulmonary surgeons; anesthesiologists, and psychiatrists from Europa.

The new tenant of 10 Downing Street appealed during the campaign to the word change, as a potion to deal with economic and social problems

The conservatives were late in trying to distance themselves from the far-right party. Reform UKby Nigel Farage, friend of Donald Trump and herald of Brexit. An ultra-nationalist gadfly who was very influential in the last decade, who did not cause a decisive change, as happened in France e Italiabut managed to gain a seat for the first time after having tried in eight elections and won more than twice as many as expected. The debacle on the right wing seals, for Labour, the end of a tortuous journey in which Starmer had to share a seat with Corbyn, controversial for his anti-Semitic proclamations, until he was able to push him around the first bend in 2020.

In it United Kingdom a parliamentary system prevails. The leader of the party that achieves the majority of numbers in the Parliament becomes Prime Minister. The new tenant of 10 Downing Street During the campaign he used the word “change” as a potion to deal with economic and social problems. In an essay on the last 14 years, Sam Knight, a columnist for The New Yorker magazine, says that the country “has yet to recover from the financial crisis that began in 2008.” Above all, because of the cuts in the health sector. A crucial point in “the worst period of wage growth since the Napoleonic Wars.” He gave a clue as to the reason for the change.

Note: This is an article republished from the media outlet «El Ínterin» through a cooperation agreement between both parties for the dissemination of journalistic content. Original link.