The Queen’s Speech reveals the meaning of Johnsonism
The prime minister wants a big state that crimps civil liberties
CONSERVATISM, AS PRACTISED by the British Conservative Party, is a capacious creed, open to a wide range of interpretations. For Margaret Thatcher, it meant the moral and economic discipline of the free market; for David Cameron, liberal centrism and the embrace of globalisation.
This article appeared in the Leaders section of the print edition under the headline “The wrong sort of conservatism”
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