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Meet the Tories’ Welsh Wizard: an interview with Stephen Crabb

Stephen Crabb, the working-class Welsh Secretary with a fondness for Margaret Thatcher

18 July 2015

9:00 AM

18 July 2015

9:00 AM

Blue collars are all the rage in the Tory party these days, which makes Stephen Crabb a very fashionable cabinet minister. He was brought up in a Welsh council house by his mother, a single parent. His political views were shaped by seeing the way in which Thatcher’s reforms transformed his neighbourhood.

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