The evidence is clear: the Tory Party’s plight can be blamed on the Liz Truss U-turn that exploded its claim to hard-headed competence

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The arts sector has long been unthinkingly in thrall to the supposedly “progressive” left but a coherent, coordinated, conservative strategy could, and should, shift the consensus