The article argues Burke was not a timid incrementalist but an explicit counter‑revolutionary, and that Reform UK can claim his mantle to justify radical state overhaul. By recasting Burke this way, it gives philosophical cover to ambitious changes such as civil‑service restructuring beyond Tory gradualism.
— If this frame sticks, it legitimizes aggressive institutional reforms as 'conservative,' reshaping how the Right defends disruptive governance in the UK.
Aris Roussinos
2025.09.17
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Kruger’s pledge for 'change on a scale that the system has not seen since the modern civil service was created' paired with appeals to Burke’s Letters on a Regicide Peace.
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