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The real deal

Tony Abbott has emerged as a role model for right-thinking conservatives across the globe

7 September 2013

9:00 AM

7 September 2013

9:00 AM

Since the 2006 mid-term congressional elections that began the Republican party’s decline, American pundits have been scanning the horizon for models of conservatism that the GOP might usefully emulate. David Cameron was their first nominee. His embrace of climate-change regulations and, more significantly, his wary avoidance of traditional Tory issues like immigration and ‘Europe’ marked him out as a new kind of conservative (that is, a not very conservative conservative.)

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John O’Sullivan is a former editor of National Review in New York.

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