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State-building is a Tory tradition. It’s time to rediscover it

It’s time for some old-fashioned Tory state-building

13 August 2022

9:00 AM

13 August 2022

9:00 AM

The Conservative leadership contest has descended into a low-tax auction, which is not a good thing. The implication is that the Conservatives think government should be minuscule at the very moment when private enterprise is letting us down – the energy companies are raking in cash and spending it on stock buybacks – and the state seems to be on its knees.

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