Phillip Blond on the Radio 4's Today Programme Thursday 20th May 2010
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ResPublica would like to congratulate our Advisory Board members on their success at the general election and their new government appointments:
Greg Clark is Minister for Communities & Local Government and the Member of Parliament for Tunbridge Wells.
Zac Goldsmith is the Conservative MP for Richmond Park and North Kingston.
John Hayes is Minister for Business, Innovation and Skills and Member of Parliament for South Holland and The Deepings.
Nick Hurd is Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Charities, Social Enterprise and Volunteering and the Member of Parliament for Ruislip-Northwood Pinner.
Oliver Letwin is Minister of State for the Cabinet Office and the Member of Parliament for Dorset West.
To find out more about the other members of our Advisory Board click here.
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On the 29th of March we hosted the launch of Phillip Blond's book 'Red Tory' to see a video of the launch, please click here.
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Phillip Blond argues for a radical new political settlement that moves beyond the traditional left/right divide. Click here to watch.
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On the 29th of March we hosted the launch of ResPublica Director Phillip Blond's new book 'Red Tory', to see pictures of the event click here and to buy a copy click here. In Red Tory, Phillip Blond challenges the conventions of the orthodox left and right, proposing instead a genuinely progressive Toryism that will restore social equity, and revive British institutions and culture.
His book has been reviewed by The Guardian and The Telegraph and has been discussed on Platform 10, on The Bulldog blog, The Jury Box blog, on True/Slant, as well as on Twitter.
Newsnight journalist Paul Mason also presented a two part report of ‘Broken Britain’ the same week as the launch, drawing significantly on the Red Tory thesis with its emphasis on the importance of community cohesion and micro-economies. To watch please click here.
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"...Of course, Cameron hadn’t entirely ditched his better plans. In the same months the party slipped back into its old habits, it also launched more radical measures—for instance giving all public sector workers the right to take over the services where they work. But a negative message about a negative situation is never good politics, and such things went unnoticed against the backbeat of austerity conservatism. Without a positive account of how the debt could be cut more smartly, the Tories seemed like they were driving the ship of state onto the rocks to avoid an oncoming storm. Brown seemed like the safe option..."
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