30th September 2008: Article for The Times by Rachel Sylvester
David Cameron's aides are running around Birmingham in T-shirts with slogans such as “Big Government = Big problems”, “Social responsibility not state control” and “Bye Bye Bureaucracy”. The same messages are on Soviet-style propaganda posters plastered all over the conference centre as the Tories meet for their annual conference.
What they say about Compassionate Economics
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What they said about Compassionate Conservatism
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Charles Moore, Daily Telegraph columnist and biographer of Lady Thatcher
