United Kingdom: Boris Johnson's Conservative Revolution

Correspondent in London

The only hospitalization of Boris Johnson, in a state that could have turned for the worse, is enough to take the measure of the shock which struck the conservative government in power. But the impact of the coronavirus crisis on the venerable party far exceeds this traumatic episode. A year after the election of "BoJo" at the head of the Tories, it dramatically accentuates a revolution wanted by the Prime Minister.

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The economic catastrophe due to the confinement has pushed the party to transgress its old principles. He who has always fervently defended liberalism, fiscal prudence and the market, launched the State in a massive plan to rescue the economy, in particular by paying the salaries of 9 million Britons put on short-time work. An assumed interventionism but which raised some questions. Party barons even wondered if he was not embracing "socialism" ... When he announced his "revolution through infrastructure"

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