Natalie Elphicke: Resenting our elders profits nobody
This government must empower and inspire today’s young to achieve under it what their parents did under Thatcher and Major.
This government must empower and inspire today’s young to achieve under it what their parents did under Thatcher and Major.
The most straight forward way to achieve a Living Income for everyone would be to align the Income Tax and National Insurance thresholds with the Minimum Wage.
It’s a modern form of One Nation Conservatism. Harold Macmillan would have liked it.
The claim that Margaret Thatcher’s ‘Victorian values’ meant the reintroduction of ‘unregulated markets’ is simply untrue.
“If she wasn’t used to the attention, she didn’t betray it.”
“The Cameroons” are wrong to view Tony Blair as “the Master”. It was “a pity” to move Michael Gove, and the EU referendum will not heal Tory divisions on Europe.
If they’d bothered asking the Margaret Thatcher Centre, they’d have known it won’t take any taxpayers’ money.
Health spending – cut it. An Airport – nationalise it. Appoint a Business Minister – better make it one that likes Karl Marx.
Our democracy is manufacturing its own ghosts at the banquet.
It may not always work well. It isn’t a model other countries want. But we’ve chosen it – and so are stuck with it.
Conservative values of thrift, responsibility and self-reliance have a firmer footing upon the rock of Scripture than the Archbishop of York supposes.
The Conservative campaign needs some warmth, uplift and outreach. That means focus on what helped Thatcher and Macmillan to win elections – housing.
Elevating FPTP to the status of a Tory principle would be a historical, and perhaps also a historic, mistake.
Answer: probably not.
The longer no party can gain no more than about a third of a vote, the louder the debate about changing the system will become.