The uncertain future of the Tory party
If Rishi Sunak loses the next general election, who will inherit the battered kingdom of British conservatism?
ByMargaret Thatcher
Labour must not be trapped by the politics of national decline or revival
Rather than a politics of imaginary growth rates, we need one of real redistribution to those whose incomes are collapsing.
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Why Liz Truss can’t be a 21st-century Thatcher
It isn’t possible to launch a free-market revolution in an economy still defined by the last one.
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Liz Truss’s self-confidence could soon leave Keir Starmer under more pressure
The Prime Minister’s desire for a full-scale ideological fight means the Labour leader will be forced to review his approach.
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From the NS archive: Iron Lady 2.0
18 July 2012: Liz Truss, a back-bench MP, is emerging as the ideological torch-bearer for a new generation of Tories.
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Rishi Sunak’s green belt pandering shows he is no Margaret Thatcher
Unlike the Iron Lady, Conservative politicians of today aren’t ready to ask the hard questions about the UK’s structural problems.
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Thatchermania won’t save the Conservative Party
It’s not just Liz Truss – Tory women will be compared to Margaret Thatcher whether they like it or not.
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Thatcherism vs Reaganomics
The fiscally conservative Rishi Sunak is borrowing from Margaret Thatcher while the tax-cutting Liz Truss channels Ronald Reagan.
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The Death of Consensus: the recurring nightmares of British politics
From strikes to Brexit, a new book by the BBC producer Phil Tinline explores how the UK has been shaped…
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From the NS archive: Where were you when Margaret Thatcher left Downing Street?
26 February 2009: Piers Morgan, Tony Benn, Billy Bragg and others tell us where they were on 22 November 1990.
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Zero: Jeremy Hunt’s book on the NHS is well intentioned – but misses 90 per cent of the story
Candid on short-staffing and underfunding, ministerial memoir Zero omits the healthcare that happens in the community.
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The Brexit project is betraying everything Margaret Thatcher stood for
Leaving the EU may have been seen by some as a reaffirmation of Thatcherism, but the reality is that –…
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Misunderstanding Margaret Thatcher
How Margaret Thatcher consolidated her power – not thanks to the Falklands War, but because of an opposition that underestimated…
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Why Antonio Gramsci is the Marxist thinker for our times
The late Italian philosopher's concept of hegemony was startlingly prescient.
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The lady was for turning: Margaret Thatcher’s Battle With the IRA by Thomas Hennessy
The extraordinary sequence of events now seems too far-fetched even for a British version of Homeland.
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