The Conservatives keep outlining policies that ...

[Michael Grove]

make one wonder what ministers

think conservatism actually IS. 

The blithe announcement that someone can re-write his or her

birth certificate if he (or she) now considers himself (or herself)

of a different gender defied conservatism’s explicit regard for

authority.

The bandwagon-jumping announcement that sales of new petrol

and diesel cars would be banned from 2040 came ill from a party

for which the car economy has been a pillar of growth, liberty and

empowerment.

There have been hints of lee way on migration after Brexit, with a

report on the economic effects of immigrant EU labour due only

six months before we leave.  Such leeway would defy the

outcome of the referendum, and any IDEA of Tory democracy.

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