Cameron wants to be tough on inequality. But does his party?

When I look back at this election campaign in weeks to come, one of the most memorable parts for me won’t be the televised debates, but those Conservative posters—everywhere you go—of Gordon Brown grinning, asking people to vote for him because “I took billions from pensions,” and “I let 80,000 criminals out early.” One poster in particular sticks in my mind: “I increased the gap between rich and poor.”

Hang on a minute. The Conservative party—who oversaw escalating inequality in the Thatcher-Major years—has the nerve to attack Labour for growing inequality? Isn’t this the same Conservative party whose leader, Margaret Thatcher, attacked the opposition for fixating on the gap between rich and poor in her final performance in the House of Commons? I thought the Tory logic was as long as the absolute condition of the poorest improved, growing