Most voters will most likely never have heard of national conservatism, let alone that its conference is in London next week. But this is a movement that could help shape the future of the Tory party – and thus UK politics – for years to come.
The three-day event in Westminster, beginning on 15 May, is only the eighth conference for the group usually shortened to “NatCon” – the nation state-eulogising offshoot of a rightwing US thinktank, which since 2016 has held get-togethers at a rotating list of international venues.
