"The British public will come to regret annihilating the Conservative Party" - - Daniel Hannan in The Telegraph.*
The experiment has been conducted in a former part of the UK: Ireland.
Regrets?
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In fairness, we were never British - - that was an imposed identity -- even if we gave them their first conservative philosopher (Burke). We named them "Tories" (thieves) and it stuck.
No regrets.
*headline seen in The Telegraph in https://youtu.be/CjKzZvFGeNw, an excellent piece by Phil Moorhouse.