Since the 2015 General Election, when the Conservative Party was freed from the braking effect of its coalition partner the LibDems, the party has actually moved sharply rightwards, as is evident from a number of mainly domestic policy changes. Previously, in the years following Blair’s 1997 landslide win with ‘New Labour’, the Tories had tried to compete with Blairism on its own ground by moving to the centre. This left no true right and no true left in British parliamentary politics. That’s changed radically in the last year, with the Tories swinging back to the right and Labour back to the left under Corbyn.
I can’t answer your other two questions, since I’ve never heard of the fraud you mention, and I know nothing of Soetero.
Thank you for an intelligent post. Most of us have little knowledge of party politics abroad.