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Liz Truss to Launch ‘Popular Conservatives’ – With Nigel Farage Present

by Richard Eldred
4 February 2024 1:10 PM

Nigel Farage will attend the launch of Liz Truss’s new ‘Popular Conservatism’ movement, known as ‘PopCons’, seen as a platform for Right-wing Tory MPs to advocate for hardline policies. The Times has the details.

The former UKIP leader is among several hundred guests expected at the event in Central London on Tuesday.

The movement, dubbed “PopCons”, is the latest initiative launched by Truss since she was forced from office in October 2022 and is seen as a vehicle for Right-wing Tory MPs. The group is expected to use it as a platform to lobby for more hardline policies, including on immigration and tax cuts, in the Conservatives’ next election manifesto.

Truss will be a headline speaker alongside her political ally Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg, the former Business Secretary, with Lee Anderson, the former Tory Deputy Chairman, also due to speak.

Mark Littlewood, who was credited as the architect of many of Truss’s libertarian economic policies in No. 10 and was unsuccessfully nominated by her for a peerage, will be director of the movement. He is the outgoing head of the libertarian think tank the Institute of Economic Affairs. David Canzini, a former senior aide to both Truss and Boris Johnson, has been assisting with the launch.

Farage’s attendance will anger party moderates, who already suspect that Truss is using the project to stage her revival. It comes after it emerged that a small cabal of Conservative MPs and special advisers were attempting to oust Rishi Sunak as Prime Minister.

One source claimed the PopCons appeared to be an attempt to build up a database of Tory supporters, with its new website inviting people to register their details for future updates. 

Worth reading in full.

Tags: Conservative PartyLiz TrussNigel FaragePoliticsPopCons

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Free Lemming
Free Lemming
1 year ago

“…Right-wing Tory MPs…“. Made me smile. And on a Sunday!

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
1 year ago
Reply to  Free Lemming

Almost as funny/rare as “conservative Tory MPs”.

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RTSC
RTSC
1 year ago

He’s a political commentator for GB News. Of course he’ll be in attendance 🙂

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago

Marvellous news – Tories feighting (no misspell) before an election. This could be comedy gold.

Too little, too late.

Woo hoo!

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
1 year ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

I guess those few with a tiny smidgeon of conservatism in them still think the party can be saved. How has that worked out so far?

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NeilParkin
NeilParkin
1 year ago

Why does it seem to me that the greater the issues we face, the more the focus goes from the big picture to small details of difference. Are we frit of saying the big things..? If we are, then that’s not a good start for the new leader. Anyway, good luck to the Popular Front of Judea on its launch and on shuffling the chairs in its own Titanic struggle. I will watch with interest as people who have had the ability to speak about things that matter to the citizens for years, and actually could have brought some action to bear, finally get round to mentioning them in polite company.

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Cristi.Neagu
Cristi.Neagu
1 year ago

I didn’t like most of Liz Truss’ political opinions, but I will say this: Going by enacted policy, she’s probably the most ring wing Tory. She actually pushed and implemented tax cuts. And then her party kicked her out. I mean, that alone counts for something. I think we should see what they have to say, but the problem is that this will most likely be a fence-sitter party.

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richardw53
richardw53
1 year ago

The IEA under Littlewood went woke and green, so not surprising there is no mention of net zero or the gender wars.

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EppingBlogger
EppingBlogger
1 year ago

Where is the launch and at what time. Not all of us have The Times subscriptions.

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Covid-1984
Covid-1984
1 year ago

What’s the point of a manifesto for a party with sub 50 seat’s. Their last manifesto was a pack of lies.

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varmint
varmint
1 year ago

We had Pop Cons back in 2019. ——They had an 80 seat majority. But they chucked it in the toilet.

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Smudger
Smudger
1 year ago

This group of MPs are fighting to save their jobs. This is nothing more than a short term rebranding exercise before the next election. The product still contains all the same crap but these fake conservatives want to design a temporary new wrapper to fool the credulous consumer of their product.

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Claphamanian
Claphamanian
1 year ago

I hope they hand out some free popcorn at this event.

At the Tory Party conference last year Ms Truss exhorted her audience to ‘unleash your inner conservative’. Liz was always on the cusp of comedy in her brief tenure as prime minister. This would be like unleashing a Dodo from a glass case in a museum and expecting it to fly. If anyone in the Tory Party is conservative, why are they still in it?

If the new series of Doctor Who featured guest stars as the old series used to (remember Beryl Reid and Nicholas Parsons?), it wouldn’t be remarkable to see Mr F appearing in a surprise role,

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JXB
JXB
1 year ago

Popcorns? Right-wing Tory MPs? Any not Right-wing are not Tories.

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