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By Nigel Williamson
“Over the past four years, the Conservative Government has been subjecting Britain to a new and more extreme form of Toryism than anything we have experienced this century. The leading Government proponents of this new dogmatic philosophy – monetarism, Thatcherism, call it what you will – are people like the Prime Minister herself, Sir Keith Joseph, Sir Geoffrey Howe and Norman Tebbit. But the ideas behind this new Toryism, epitomised in the infamous “Think Tank” proposals to dismantle the welfare state, did not suddenly emerge with the election of Thatcher in 1979. They have been around for years.”
