26 July 2019, World Socialist Web Site
(Australia) https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/26/bori-j26.html
By Chris Marsden and Robert Stevens
Newly elected Conservative Party leader Boris Johnson is now prime
minister of Britain’s most-right wing, anti-working-class government since the
Second World War.
His is a class war government, with all the main positions filled by
representatives of the extreme right of a very right-wing party. On Wednesday
evening, Johnson finalised a Cabinet dominated by hard Brexiteers, with former
pro-Remain Tories having to sign up to support leaving the European Union on
October 31, with or without a deal. He sacked 17 ministers who were either
Remainers or allies of outgoing Prime Minister Theresa May.
Johnson nominated as Chancellor Sajid Javid, who favours slashing
corporation tax from 19 percent (the lowest rate in the G20) to 12.5 percent
and has mooted abolishing altogether the 45 percent rate of income tax paid by
the richest.
Among the most significant forces in Johnson’s government are those
grouped around Dominic Raab, a clique within the Thatcherite Free Enterprise
Group involved in publishing Britannia Unchained in 2012. The collection
of articles written by Raab, Kwasi Kwarteng, Priti Patel, Chris Skidmore and
Liz Truss argued for deregulation of trade, tax cuts and hiking up the
exploitation of the working class,
