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National Conservatism: New or Old?

These Times

CHAPTER

The Conservative Party's Disadvantages in 2015

Cameron wanted the party to be socially liberal. So if we go back to our accommodating change that some people in the party at least might not necessarily like, absolutely that's what he wanted to do. The only thing that gave the Conservatives really that majority under his leadership in 2015 was the ability to be the English party in a politics of multinational union. I think actually that is part of the story of the Thatcher winning in because of the 2020 under Thatcher in 1979 that did do disproportionately well in England after an election precipitated by failure of referendum and devolution in Scotland.

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