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It was a campaign slogan for the Canadian Conservative Party too, as well as used heavily by Conservatives in my province during the last election. "Common sense" has always been a fig leaf for somebody wanting to believe they hold a majority view when that is not supported by polls.
Conservatives in the UK have been using "common sense" as a slogan for some time now. I believe it was a thing during the Thatcher and/or Major years, and it still goes on:
https://www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2023/11/conservatisms-cult-of-common-sense
There's even a far-right group within the UK's Conservative Party who call themselves the "Common Sense Group":
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Sense_Group