School of Politics and International Relations

Professor Tim Bale, Saving capitalism - and the Conservatives

21 September 2017

Professor Tim Bale writes in the Times about, Daniel Finkelstein’s, Times journalist, suggestion that the Conservative Party take inspiration from Robert Reich’s latest book, Saving Capitalism: “Conservatives have never gone in much for book-learning, preferring the supposed wisdom of experience and the eternal verities — one of which, particularly once they’d promoted Margaret Thatcher to be their patron saint, is that you should regulate and spend as little as the electorate will allow you to get away with.”
More »