Title: The Party of Davos is the biggest loser in Britain’s election | The Economist
Headings: The Party of Davos is the biggest loser in Britain’s election
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The Party of Davos is the biggest loser in Britain’s election
The long climb back

Content: They need to see that they are on a hiding to nothing if they think they can win popular support by advocating a pure diet of economic and social liberalism. If anything, majorities want the opposite. This will require a lot of rethinking of lazy verities. Davosites need to think much harder about the importance of things like belonging, dignity and nationalism. It will also require a lot of self-policing. Davosites need to be as hard on self-dealing on their own side, particularly among company bosses who pay themselves ever more for mediocre performance, as they are on that of others. Unless the Party of Davos can reform itself, it will remain on the periphery of British politics—and rightly so. ■
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