I think that today’s Tory manifesto is really quite a piece of work and potentially a work of genuine radicalism. It looks west and back and while it honours plenty of traditional Tory themes its inspiration is American in ways that not even Margaret Thatcher would have imagined – and that the Lady would have found too radical.
Hopi Sen worries that none of the questions he asked about the manifesto have been answered. So here, in a
fraternal spirit, is how they might be so answered:
1. Why is a pledge on cutting inheritence tax for millionaires a higher national priority than reducing the deficit or tax cuts for low income single parents?
Good question! The answer, silly, is that this pleases the Daily Mail and the Daily Telegraph. Never mind that there are vast swathes of the country in which very few houses are worth more than £600,000; there are lots of big houses in southern England that are.
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