Bring on the New Center-Left
Martin Kettle, The Guardian | February 27, 2009
The UK Tories will be back in power within 15 months, it seems almost certain. ++ In hand with this, Thatcherism is being revisited 30 years after it began. ++ But too stark a comparison between now and then is foolish. ++ Thatcher was a product of her union-power, high-taxation time; Cameron, on the other hand, fails to reflect the center-left movement taking hold which rightly chastises the “financial ungovernability” of our age. ++ Obama has risen to “the new occasion;” this side of the Atlantic must follow.
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