4 October 2017
Conservatives need to give people a vision they can believe in

by George Freeman

The Conservative Party currently stands at a crossroads. The general election demonstrated the speed at which politics is changing and showed in the starkest terms how we must change with it.

A recent report from the Resolution Foundation shows the scale of the task clearly: 33 per cent of millennials would rather have grown up in their parents’ generation, while 53 per cent think they will be worse off than the previous generation. Voters under 40 now view capitalism as more of a threat to their life chances than socialism. The generation shaped by the wealth-distributing effects of quantitative easing have seen a massive transfer of wealth from the young to the old, and markets such as housing no longer working for them. Brexit is

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