“Just look at Hungary, observe what happened to Orbán, to Fidesz. If you can’t achieve growth, regardless of your ideology, you will eventually lose,” she mentioned.
Badenoch’s Conservative Party experienced its worst-ever performance in the 2024 U.K. general election after 14 years in control, now facing difficulties as Nigel Farage’s populist right-wing Reform UK gains momentum in the polls.
However, Badenoch claimed the emergence of Magyar, whom she described as “very much of the right, in some areas even more stringent,” demonstrates that traditional center-right economics and ideology are “reasserting themselves.”
Complacency has been “undermining all of Western Europe,” Badenoch stated, calling it “Europe’s greatest ailment.”
She criticized former German Chancellor Angela Merkel directly.
“I believe there was significant complacency. Inviting a million Syrian migrants to Germany contributed to increased skepticism about the EU. It was one of the catalysts for Brexit,” she remarked.
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