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British Conservative Leader Kemi Badenoch announced this month that her party will no longer allow its parliamentarians and candidates to support “net zero” environmental policies or continued membership within the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR). The controversial move has been widely interpreted as a “purge” of the Conservatives’ centrist voices and an extension of Badenoch’s broader efforts to revive the party by restoring its right-wing identity. Debates about the Conservatives’ ideological purity surged after the 2024 U.K. general election, when the party – after 14...