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To do or not to do

How indecision and timidity cripple conservatism

7 September 2024

9:00 AM

7 September 2024

9:00 AM

Here’s a question for readers. Do you think more changes to Britain will have been achieved by thirteen years of Cameron/May/Johnson/Sunak Tory governments or by the first year of Keir Starmer’s Labour government? Put differently, what did the Tories actually do that was remotely conservative? Okay, the Brexit referendum was forced on David Cameron by Nigel Farage’s remarkable results in the European Union elections.

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