Craft Politics: What's next for Tories and Reform UK?
Dan Hannan shares his thinking with us in a wide-ranging interview
You can find Craft Politics on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Substack.
This week, Percy and I chat with Lord Daniel Hannan, one of the most thoughtful — and globally fluent — conservative voices in politics.
We explore the future of the right across the Anglosphere:
🇬🇧 Is the British Conservative Party dead or just regenerating?
🇺🇸 Has the U.S. abandoned the world it built?
🇨🇦 Why is Canadian conservatism still the sanest?
🗳 And is the UK heading toward a merger moment like Canada’s in 2003?
🧭 What We Cover
1. The Anglosphere’s Conservative Crisis
How lockdown changed the role of the state
Why “Trumpism” is reshaping the right in every country — including Iceland
And why Canada may be the only place where centre-right politics still feel normal
“Preserving the sanity and civility of Canadian politics is no small prize.” — Hannan
2. Can Reform and the Tories Work Together?
Hannan lays out the most detailed case yet for a non-merger, non-coalition electoral pact — and explains why time is running out.
“If we were all Dr. Spock from Star Trek, we’d have done this by now.”
He also draws a direct line from Farage’s playbook to Canada’s 1993-2003 Reform-Conservative story — and suggests it may all play out again, faster than we think.
3. The Long History of Toryism
Daniel is writing the first comprehensive history of the Conservative Party — from the 1600s onward.
He reminds us why old parties shouldn’t be underestimated… and why “Toryism” might survive even if the Tory party doesn’t.
4. On Brexit: Not a disaster — just underused
We close the episode by tackling the narrative around Brexit’s so-called failure.
“Brexit didn’t make you richer or poorer. It gave you back the right to make different choices. Whether you succeed or fail depends on what you do next.”