James Forsyth & Katy Balls

‘Austerity was not the way forward’

The Prime Minister on his plans for a new style of conservatism

issue 30 November 2019

Only once in the post-war era has a British political party won a fourth term in office, but that is what the Conservative party are attempting to do in this election. It’s a tall order, but Boris Johnson has a plan: to make it clear that his is a new government — offering change, not simply more of the same.

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