Greg Barker: Tories must not “dance off to the right“

Conservative MP and former climate change minister says his party must "relentlessly" pursue modernisation.

(Photo By Conservative MP and former climate change minister Greg Barker. Photograph: David Levene/The Guardian.)

For this week’s Conservative conference edition of the New Statesman, I interviewed Greg Barker, Conservative MP for Bexhill and Battle, former climate change minister (he accompanied David Cameron to the Arctic Circle in 2006) and ultra-moderniser. You can read the piece in full here, but here are some of the highlights.

Tories must not “dance off to right” and must “relentlessly” pursue modernisation

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