What Christian Guy’s appointment says about David Cameron’s No.10

What will David Cameron do with his final few years in power? On election night, he said he wanted his party ‘to reclaim a mantle that we should never have lost: the mantle of one nation’. This raised the prospect of Cameron trying to succeed where so many of his predecessors failed: in making it clear that conservatism actually delivers the fairness, the poverty reduction and the social cohesion that Labour can only talk about.

Cameron has spoken about this agenda over the years, but there’s seldom much of a follow-up – raising questions about how serious he actually is. But today, we seen a signal of harder intent: he has hired Christian Guy, the director of the Centre for Social Justice, as an adviser. I sit on the CSJ’s advisory board and could not think more highly of Christian, or his colleagues at the CSJ. It’s a powerhouse of ideas adopted by the government – from universal credit to what is now the Modern Slavery Act.