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by Jonathan Derbyshire
His “Red Tory” thesis is attracting support from left and right, and the man emerging as the Conservatives' philosopher-king is a grave threat to Labour.
Phillip Blond is sitting in his London office. “I think mine is a genuinely radical project,” he says. “Lots of people on the left have said to me that if the Tories do what I’m telling them to, they’ll vote for them.”
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by John Harris
A year ago Phillip Blond was a little-known theology lecturer. Now, as the architect of 'Red Toryism', he is one of the Conservative leader's inner circle and has set up his own thinktank.
Ten years a minor academic in a provincial university," says Phillip Blond, with a kind of gleeful amazement, "and then suddenly, it all changed."
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by Craig Dearden-Phillips
The Red Tory's ideal state intervenes in the market rather than tiptoeing around it
At first glance, the prescriptions of Conservative thinker Phillip Blond – the so-called Red Tory – sound familiar. He calls for a smaller state and a stronger society. But Blond goes much further. With compelling confidence, he lambasts not only Brownite statism (which we all expected) but also rampant materialism and uber-capitalism (which, frankly, we didn't). Both political parties have been complicit.
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by Peter Hoskin
So what overarching theory do Cameron & Co. believe in now?
So what overarching theory do Cameron & Co. believe in now? Is it Phillip Blond's "Red Toryism"? Are they still invigorated by "libertarian paternalism"? Or have they struck on something else? This week's Bagehot column in the Economist gives us a useful overview of all the -isms the Tories have gone through recently, before landing on a conclusion that the policy wonks in CCHQ may not like
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by Beatrix Campbell,
Phillip Blond's Red Toryism manifesto was a bold contribution to a conversation
The debut of Red Toryism earlier this year signified the exhaustion of the neoliberal hegemony that has brought the world to the brink. It suggested a cross-party sensibility that we just can't go on like this.
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by Iain Dale and Brian Brivati
As the Conservative Party gathers for its annual conference, these are the people who will influence the party's policies and strategy ahead of the next election.
Described by New Statesman as the Conservative Party’s "philosopher-king", Blond made a name for himself with his "Red Toryism" thesis
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by Polly Curtis
Phillip Blond, the so-called Red Tory for his part advising the Conservatives to make tackling poverty central to their message
Phillip Blond, the so-called Red Tory for his part advising the Conservatives to make tackling poverty central to their message, argues today in The Ownership State that frontline workers should be given the chance to turn the public services they deliver into "civil companies" and instead run them as a community interest company, possibly along the lines of the John Lewis partnership. He said Ikea, Starbucks, BMW, Toyota and Google all extended some form of stake down to employees.
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by John Harris
Tory thinkers such as Jesse Norman and the ubiquitous Phillip Blond truly fizz with ideas
Now, the end is near – and after three weeks and three conferences, we're once again left pondering a set of glorious historical ironies.
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by Will Hutton
Red Tories are coming up with some interesting ideas for how to restructure government – I like Red Tory Phillip Blond's proposal to create employee partnerships within the public sector
David Cameron declared in his closing speech at the Conservative party conference: "Here is the big argument in British politics today. Labour say that to solve the country's problems we need more government. Don't they see? It is more government that got us into this mess." Not only his audience, but much of the media applauded this apparently killer point.
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by James Forsyth
One line from the Sunday papers is still haunting me today.
One line from the Sunday papers is still haunting me today. In the Mail on Sunday, Phillip Blond wrote that, “one million children have alcohol-addicted parents”. Think about that for a minute. What hope can these children have growing up in these kind of households?
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