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The Times’ Tim Montgomerie cites our research on apprenticeships.
Even the “moderate” candidate to lead Her Majesty’s Opposition advocates talking to Islamic State, creating £270 billion of unfunded new spending and granting an increasingly left-wing membership control of Labour policy. So, goodbye, Trident; goodbye, charitable status for private schools; goodbye, union laws. Whether Owen Smith or Jeremy Corbyn wins, the old left is pulling the strings again.
Meanwhile, Theresa May isn’t just moving a tank or two onto the lawn vacated by Labour moderates, but whole battalions. She vows fairness for the north; more affordable homes; help for underachieving boys at school; a war on prejudice facing women at work; a revolution in mental healthcare; less corporate tax dodging; and, just this weekend, a new audit of public services and their effect on the disadvantaged.
Reforming stop-and-search and fighting human trafficking while she was at the Home Office prove that our new PM is not a recent convert to social justice, but equally her failure on immigration shows that raising public expectations can be dangerous.
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