What Chantal Mouffe gets wrong
The Belgian philosopher’s influence on today’s left is unquestionable, but the transformative potential of her ideas is held back by…
ByMargaret Thatcher
The uncertain future of the Tory party
If Rishi Sunak loses the next general election, who will inherit the battered kingdom of British conservatism?
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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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