Tuesday 4 September 2007

Michael Ancram, Not Margaret Thatcher

Is Michael Ancram really a "Thatcherite"? He wasn't especially so when he was a Minister.

In fact, Ancram (long the weak link in The Henry Jackson Society, and good for him) should cast himself, much more accurately, as a voice of the aristocratic social conscience, of its stake in the Keynes-Beveridge-Attlee Settlement through the farm subsidies that pay the rent which sustains it, of Catholic Social Teaching, and of the Catholic Unionist traditions in Scotland and Ireland.

A voice desperately needing to be heard, in fact. And what he was really trying to say, I suspect.

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