Exploring the conservatism of Benjamin Disraeli | Edward Kendall

Populist conservatism has received a lot of bad press in recent years and populist is often used as a slur in politics, but it has been shown to be popular with many voters and not without good reason. There has been a trend in recent decades for the metropolitan elite of both the left and right to be rather condescending towards much of the traditional working-class vote.

Their concerns about mass migration and rapid social change are dismissed as being the product of irrational prejudice, as opposed to rooted in valid concerns about jobs, wages, and social cohesion.