David Cameron should break up supermarket giant Tesco and turn the Post Office into a nationalised parallel banking system, argues influential Conservative party advisor Phillip Blond in this month's cover story, which unveils a new "progressive" agenda for the British right. Blond, the director of Demos's new Progressive Conservatism project, argues for a break with free-market Thatcherism, to be replaced by a bold new "Red Toryism" that is socially conservative, sceptical of neo-liberal economics and radically localist; the most challenging new political thesis of the post-credit crunch era.
Has he lost the plot, or is this the way forward for the Tories? The whole article is now free to read online here, so wade in with your views.
Has he lost the plot, or is this the way forward for the Tories? The whole article is now free to read online here, so wade in with your views.
