Why The Tories Keep Winning | Downstream
Channel: Novara Media
Date: 06/04/2021

Excluding Tony Blair's back-to-back victories, the Conservative Party has governed the UK for all but 18 of the last 100 years. While the media often presents elections as Labour's to lose, the truth is that Britain is a one party state which occasionally lets the other side have a go in the interest of fairness. With the Hartlepool by-election just a month away, Ash Sarkar is joined by journalist Samuel Earle to discuss how the Conservative Party became the most successful political party in the Western world - and what it might take for the left to topple them.


00:00 - Introduction
03:40 - Why are the Conservatives so good at winning elections? 
05:58 - Origins & Reinvention
11:20 - The resilience of the ruling class
16:58 - Tradition
21:42 - The Cold War
23:46 - Blairism
27:17 - Gramsci
34:14 - The state of the union
36:44 - How can the Tories appeal to young and BAME voters?
41:41 - Keir Starmer

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