If the Conservatives win the next election, a majority of the Tory benches will be made up of members of the 2010 intake. We will be, in terms of numbers, the most significant intake for 60 years and will have huge influence on the party in years to come. So, what do I and my colleagues believe? We all share a commitment to people power and we see the potential for a new social covenant establishing that government belongs to the people and is the servant of the people. We want a government that is more transparent and accountable and we want to roll back the ‘surveillance state’.
We subscribe to Lincoln’s vision of ‘government of the people, for the people, by the people’. Government for the people is government the people can afford – the state must strive to spend money wisely.
Government for the people demands that someone be responsible for all decisions taken.
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