When you look around the Anglosphere you soon notice that right-of-centre voters in Australia have the least sway over the political party that purports to represent them. Put differently, the political class has captured the party far more here than in the UK, Canada or the US.
Start in Britain with the contest to replace Boris as leader of the Conservative party.
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