New Delhi, Oct. 8 -- Britain's Conservatives used to boast they were the world's most successful political party. Not anymore.

The center-right party that governed the U.K. for more than 60 of the last 100 years before being ousted in 2024 is embracing Donald Trump -style policies including mass deportations and DOGE-style spending cuts as it battles to remain a contender for power.

The Tories are fighting not just the Labour government to their left, but Reform UK to the right. Nigel Farage's hard-right party has topped opinion polls for months, trounced the Conservatives in May's local elections and has welcomed a stream of defecting Tory members and officials.

"Yes, we have a mountain to climb," Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch tol...