'Even the Tory faithful get the need for housing'

摘要

How did it come to this? With just under 25 years of post-Thatcher positioning for the centrist middle ground between the two main parties, we now regress back to a leadership choice next May that harks back to the days of Macmillan's "you never had it so good" vs Healey's 1970s mantra of "squeeze the property speculators until the pips squeak". And we all thought Britain had come so far. Well, here we are: the Eton/Oxford-educated, grouse-shooting toff PM, pitted against the son of a marxist LSE lecturer. And their respective party conferences seemed to reflect these backgrounds.