There are lessons to be learned from the collapse of Prime Minister Liz Truss’s government in Britain, writes hgurdon. But the folly of cutting taxes and regulation is not one of them.
The case for freeing people from excessive government expropriation and interference is even stronger than when Truss moved into Downing Street on Sept. 6. She was clumsy and detached from market realities, but acknowledging that doesn’t suggest Britain will be better off with more big government, which is what it’s going to get.
The real lessons are first that the Conservatives ceased to be conservative in the three decades since Margaret Thatcher left office. Tory prime ministers, most recently Boris Johnson, made the party’s mission election success rather than good government. But although the chances of the former can occasionally be improved by sacrificing the latter, it eventually hollows out the party’s raison d’etre and the roof caves in.
Britain’s constitution embeds the executive in the legislature rather than separating them as in Washington. That means the prime minister must retain the support of a majority of members of Parliament or she cannot go on. British leaders used to be chosen by their parliamentary colleagues, the men and women without whose votes the government couldn’t survive. It is time, as former Conservative leader William Hague observed recently, to return the responsibility for choosing leaders to those whose backing they will rely on.
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