The Tories are getting behind all the daftest progressive causes

One of the strange things I keep on hearing about this feeble government is that it has been spurred by Brexit to launch a culture war and reverse the Cameron-era detoxification of the party. They’re taking us back to the 50s, or the Victorian era, or maybe 1065. It’s one of those things one sees being written so often that it must surely be true – except if you actually read what government ministers say, or study their policies. Just this week, for example, it’s already been announced that prisoners could now get the vote, and that returning jihadis might get priority in social housing.

Earlier last month the Tories brought out a new report aimed at pursuing the utterly unachievable goal of racial equality of outcome, a debate that no conservative is ever going to win. Around the same time, the British government also declared that the highly problematic and controversial term ‘pregnant woman’ should not be used in a United Nations Treaty as it excludes transgender people. They also introduced plans