THe signed off that Kemi Badenoch, who was elected leader of the UK Conservative Party on November 2, is operating on a different plane than her rivals who attended October’s party conference. While they were busy with cheesy selfies and cheap merchandise, her team published a 22,000-word pamphlet titled “Conservatism in Crisis: The Rise of the Bureaucratic Class.” Mr Badenoch’s argument for combating progressive identity politics and the widespread idea on the Tory right that the ‘clump’, a sticky nexus of liberal interest groups, will block Conservative government policies It included a sprawling theory that combined the idea that people were working to
This “new bureaucracy,” as Ms. Badenoch calls it, is made up of private sector compliance lawyers, human resources professionals, university administrators, NGO workers, and environmental lobbyists. They are able to maintain a comfortable middle-class lifestyle because they demand ever-greater government regulation at the expense of the entrepreneurial “old middle class.” And that regulation is responsible for an alarming range of Britain’s ills: low growth, high taxes, high immigration, social polarization, devalued degrees, a creaky health service, and a weakened nation-state itself. There is. The authors write that the new bureaucracy is “a new left based primarily on nationalization and private sector unions, but not on increasing social and economic control.” It became the Conservative Party’s position to confront them.
