Peter Oborne

Keith Joseph’s lesson to today’s political pygmies

In this extract from his Centre for Policy Studies lecture, Peter Oborne says that the great Tory sage and architect of Thatcherism was quite unlike the politicians of today

issue 07 March 2009
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