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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Peter Walker Political correspondent

Sunakites to culture warriors: Tory tribes go to war in Birmingham

Kwasi Kwarteng and Liz Truss in the compulsory hard hat and high-vis jacket of politicians visiting industrial sites.
The free-market ultras propelled Kwasi Kwarteng (left) and Liz Truss (centre) into top office. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/AFP/Getty Images

Always something of a broad church, the Conservative party has become increasingly atomised in recent years, a fracturing that has rarely been greater than at this week’s conference in Birmingham. Here is a snapshot of five tribes, covering MPs and the wider Tory faithful. Many of them do, inevitably, intersect.

The IEA/TPA free-market ultras

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