The first reactionary
Edmund Burke may be the Conservatives’ philosopher king – but his thinking was more fickle than Tories seem to realise.
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Samuel Earle
Samuel Earle is a writer based in London. His first book Tory Nation: How One Party Conquered the UK was published in 2023 by Simon & Schuster.
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