“Those who shut their ears to the cries of the poor will be ignored in their own time of need”: Why Conservatives should promote the welfare state
Since Margaret Thatcher’s meteoric rise to become the great talisman of the conservative movement, conservatives up and down the country have increasingly ignored the cries of the poor. This vincible ignorance, as Aquinas would put it, is a canker at the very heart of the Tory Party today, and represents all that is wrong with …