Theresa May has brought the curtain down on this year’s Tory party conference with a speech in which she made a snatch for the centre ground. The Prime Minister pledged to stick up for the working class and went on the attack against the ‘sneering elite’, who May said looked down on others. But how successful was her speech? And did it tell us anything more about May? On the Spectator’s Coffee House Shots podcast, James Forsyth says:
I think she is keener on the state than most Conservatives are. I think there was a lot of aim taken at the liberal elite. There was a lot of vicar’s daughter style emphasis on the obligations you owe to the other people in your family and the other people in your community. And I thought there was a striking attempt to sort-of nationalise the political legacy of Clement Attlee.
Fraser Nelson says the speech made it obvious what Theresa May doesn’t stand for.
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