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The Guardian view on the Conservative conference: a party still searching for a purpose | Editorial
The Guardian view on the Conservative conference: a party still searching for a purpose | Editorial. Kemi Badenoch has a lot to say about Labour and Reform UK but none of it amounts to a coherent alternative programme for government The Conservative party is far from the margin of British politics, but it has yet to recover the relevance to which it feels historically entitled. The Tories are flattered by their status as the official opposition in parliament. In the wider country, Reform UK has set the agenda on the right, overtaking Kemi Badenoch’s party in opinion polls and poaching.