Letters

HEIRS TO BLAIR Your leading article (BLOODY OPPOSITION, JULY) finds fault with the policies of all Conservative governments since the “worst prime minister, John Major” who you credit with creating “modern Britain”. Mainly, though, it is during the New Labour years that followed Major that you locate the roots of our current discontents. That is not only because of what Blairism achieved in office but also through its adoption by David Cameron’s modernisers. They accepted as holy writ the key mechanisms that ingrained the progressivism of identity politics in law and public sector provision. The Conservative modernisers also stitched up the candidate selection of like-minded MPs, few of whom proved either administratively capable or philosophically stout enough to challenge the liberal consensus they inherited and embraced. Yet, it does seem…

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The Critic (Digital) - 1 Issue, August/September 2024

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