From Here to Fraternity

Compassionate Conservatism

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Advance praise for Compassionate Conservatism

"Superb... What the Conservatives need now is not re-branding but an actual philosophical and policy basis for action.  This book brilliantly provides that basis.  It shows not just why the Tories are ready for government again, but why Britain needs them - badly."
Andrew Sullivan, noted political commentator and journalist

"Big government fails because it is a monopoly and claims a monopoly of wisdom. Instead politicians should encourage the emergence of voluntary co-operation, exchange and virtue in society.

This delightful and important book explains why and how, from political first principles to policy nuts and bolts. Conservatives and non-conservatives alike should read it."
Matt Ridley, Science writer and author of The Origins of Virtue

"A glimpse of the future of British Conservatism"
Adrian Wooldridge, Co-author of The Right Nation

Media Comments on Compassionate Conservatism

"Polly Toynbee's attempt to mug my book displays a genius for inaccurate summary and off-the-point argument... Her article is a last rallying cry to old Labour: to sound the retreat from the partial gains made by Tony Blair, and to reject enterprise, diversity, innovation and pluralism in favour of withdrawal into old Labour's ancient citadel. But the world has moved on."
Jesse Norman responds to Polly Toynbee, 16 June 2006

"Here is a book to answer one of politics' most baffling questions: Compassionate Conservatism: What It Is, Why We Need It, by Jesse Norman of Policy Exchange, the thinktank closest to David Cameron - which holds the kernel of Cameronian thought - and Janan Ganesh, a researcher at the organisation."
Polly Toynbee | The Guardian, 13 June 2006

"HERE'S a real conundrum. Is David Cameron, for all his touchy-feely Notting Hill modernity, at heart a rather traditional sort of Tory? Or is he a ruthless pragmatist, interested only in what works and willing to jettison any policy or idea that, however dear to his party, may cost it votes?"
The limits of compassionate conservatism | The Economist, June 15 2006

"As Jesse Norman argues eloquently in a new book, Compassionate Conservatism, published by Policy Exchange, the Cameroons' think tank, the Tory leader is gradually building up a political identity based on the idea of a "connected society", in which wellbeing is more important than wealth and the common good matters as much as individual rights."
Rachel Sylvester in the Daily Telegraph