Why have the Tories abandoned their promise to fight ‘burning injustices’?

This week the Conservative Party quietly abandoned the promises made by Theresa May to the British people on the steps of Downing Street when becoming Prime Minister.

As a then-new First Lord of the Treasury, May vowed to her fellow citizens that she would right the ‘burning injustices’ that confronted society’s worst-off and prevented them from meeting their fullest potential. The United Kingdom would, she said, ‘be a country that works for everyone’ and made reference to the disadvantages facing minorities in areas like the justice system. The speech had One Nation Tories like me on the edge of their seats, applauding what sounded like a new direction after years of austerity under David Cameron, and decades of liberal economic attitudes in the Conservative Party since Margaret Thatcher’s leadership. Unfortunately, like many promises of the May Ministry, nothing has changed. Two years on from that address, polling from the Conservative Party show that voters place more confidence in Jeremy Corbyn and his Labour Party to actually solve the social issues that hamstring Britain.