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Why have so many prominent conservatives undergone dramatic conversions?

Oct 09, 2026
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Daily Telegraph journalist Tim Stanley has provoked the ire of the “based” right by proclaiming that there can be no reversal of mass immigration and the leadership of Nigerian anchor baby Kemi Badenoch – whose birth-right citizenship derives from a law that was abolished a year after her birth and who didn’t live in England until she was 16 – is wonderful because it reflects modern Britain and implies that this foreigner has fallen in love with Britishness. Stanley correctly notes that Badenoch’s position possibly allows her to perceive Britain’s problems with greater clarity precisely because she is an outsider. But, for me, Stanley raises a more salient question, which I’ve also looked at in a video: Why do we have so many converts in public life?

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