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Don’t take health care reform off the election agenda

28 June 2016

7:03 AM

28 June 2016

7:03 AM

Monetarism: tick. De-nationalisation of industry: tick. Europe: big new tick.

The results of the Brexit referendum are more significant than just a victory for the Leave campaign. It marks another stunning and epochal triumph for the ideas and principles of the Tory ‘rebels’ of the post-war period.

The rebels — who included the intellectual godfathers of Thatcherism — resisted, and mounted the intellectual case against the reshaping of Toryism under the leadership of Harold MacMillan in the 1950s and then under Ted Health in the 1970s.

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