How better to follow Jeremy Corbyn’s speech yesterday than by citing a signature Tory policy that shifted wealth to “working people and their families”?
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“The work done in partnership with Baldwin, and by Chamberlain alone after 1937, gave Britain some of the best welfare services in the world.”
Corbyn has been wily enough not to plunge into the Brexit trap set for him by Johnson.
Rees-Mogg discusses why “we should be very proud” of the UK’s private schools. And hopes that the EU will show “some swift action as we get closer to 31st October”.
Even Corbyn’s Labour is wary of assaulting his free school and academy legacy directly.
The Conservative Party has been at the forefront of reforms which have helped the disadvantaged. Modern history is full of evidence of this vital strain of conservatism.
Ever since the EU referendum, there’s been renewed focus on how to help poorer places. Helpfully there is decades of evidence about what does and doesn’t work.
It’s one that more Tories should tell – in season and out, including this week each year, when Labour strive to delegitimise it.
The Government’s policy of reminding the electorate that it is keeping faith with the largest democratic exercise in our country’s political history is correct.
Nobody wins by pointing each other out as oddballs. But watch for the moments when each party accidentally reveals its private nature.
It would also be dishonest to claim that the thought of voting Liberal Democrat did not flicker momentarily as we’ve veered towards knuckle-head, pound-shop Orbanism.
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In the end, it may well prefer to hold out for a general election – and the likelihood of a Brexit delay – in the hope that something better turns up.
Increasingly there is a recognition that the little platoons can alleviate a range of modern social ills.