What's the point of the Liberal party if it just panders to an ever-narrowing base? | Lenore Taylor

The lack of policies at the heart of this insurrection shows it isn’t about preserving the party as a broad church: it’s about following the global trend towards the far right

Rash predictions about the fate of political parties are often made in the fury of a roiling leadership storm. But this crisis really does raise questions about the purpose of the Liberal party and what, if anything, it stands for.

I don’t often agree with the executive director of the Institute of Public Affairs, John Roskam, but I think he is right to say the Liberal party is facing an existential crisis. (We still disagree over what they should do about it.)

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