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Pass the torch

If only Britain had sound conservatives such as John Howard and Tony Abbott

5 October 2013

9:00 AM

5 October 2013

9:00 AM

 

London.

 
Australia’s Liberal party has perhaps more good fortune than it realises. Its present leader and Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, enjoys harmonious relations with the man this magazine has, rightly, described as the greatest Australian leader since Menzies, John Howard. Anyone who watched the often poisonous relations that, for example, Margaret Thatcher had with her successor as leader and Prime Minister, John Major, will instantly appreciate how lucky Australia is.

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Simon Heffer is political columnist of the Daily Mail and author of High Minds: The Victorians and the Birth of Modern Britain (Random House), out next month.

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