Tim Bale, a Professor of Politics at Queen Mary University of London who has written a book about the Conservatives’ post-Brexit drift towards populism, said a further move in this direction seemed expected. “I think it’s extremely likely that after the next election, should the Conservatives lose, they will go further along the path taking them from being a mainstream centre-right party to an ersatz populist radical-right outfit,” he said.
The GuardianProfessor Bale was quoted in an additional article in the Guardian on the recent local election results.