Julia Hartley-Brewer attributes the UK's current decline to a political, academic, and media elite that is ashamed of British values and culture, leading to a lack of confidence and moral relativism.

“I think it's in a political media academic Elite who um and public sector Elite as well and actually you can add in quite a lot of the private sector well this Elite who are just completely out of touch with um with with mainstream British opinion I think the vast majority of what most people think ”