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May’s Conservatives heading down open road to Brexit
<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: #1a1a1a;">British Prime Minister Theresa May (Right) and her husband Philip John May walk along the bridge from the hotel to the International Convention Centre in Birmingham, central England, on October 2, 2016 on the first day of the Conservative party annual conference. (Photo: AFP)</span>
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October 1, 2016

May’s Conservatives heading down open road to Brexit

LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) – Turmoil in the political opposition has given Britain’s governing Conservative Party free rein to implement Brexit in its own way, but Prime Minister Theresa May is at the mercy of her own awkward squad, analysts say.

May, who addresses the party’s annual conference for the first time as leader on Sunday, is “hugely bolstered by the absence of a strong and meaningful opposition”, said Jane Green, a professor of political science at the University of Manchester.

“Had the (main opposition) Labour Party been able to hold the May government to account, we would, I imagine, be seeing more detail on what she is aiming to do” in taking Britain out of the European Union, Green told AFP.

Labour has been embroiled in a bitter leadership contest since Britain’s June 23 referendum vote to leave the EU.

It remains in turmoil following the re-election of leftist leader Jeremy Corbyn at its annual conference last week, against the wishes of the vast majority of Labour’s members of parliament.

The party is also divided on mass immigration — the key issue in the referendum.

– Labour demolition mission –

At the Conservatives’ annual conference in Birmingham, central England, May should have “one thing in mind: the destruction of the Labour party,” said James Frayne, strategy director of the Policy Exchange think-tank.

Her keynote speech, due on Wednesday, “should mark the beginning of a process to completely dominate the political mainstream, pushing the Labour party out to the fringes,” he wrote on the Conservative Home website.

May, who became Britain’s second woman prime minister in July, has pledged to govern in the inclusive “One Nation” style of conservatism, which dates back to 19th-century premier Benjamin Disraeli.

Reinterpreted for 2016, it means dominating the centre ground left uncontested by Labour, who many believe is further from power than at any time in more than 30 years.

Voters have far more confidence in May than Corbyn to prop up the public health service, reduce mass immigration and strike post-Brexit trade relationships, according to a Britain Thinks opinion poll on September 22.

And a YouGov poll for The Times newspaper on Friday put the Conservatives on 39 percent, ahead of Labour on 30 percent. Opinion polls since July have regularly given the Conservatives a double-digit lead.

However, she has ruled out capitalising on their advantage by calling a general election before one is due in 2020.

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