Tim Montgomerie: Theresa May must now decide what’s important

The Times’ Tim Montgomerie cites our research on apprenticeships.

Even the “moderate” candidate to lead Her Majesty’s Opposition advocates talking to Islamic State, creating £270 billion of unfunded new spending and granting an increasingly left-wing membership control of Labour policy. So, goodbye, Trident; goodbye, charitable status for private schools; goodbye, union laws. Whether Owen Smith or Jeremy Corbyn wins, the old left is pulling the strings again.

Meanwhile, Theresa May isn’t just moving a tank or two onto the lawn vacated by Labour moderates, but whole battalions. She vows fairness for the north; more affordable homes; help for underachieving boys at school; a war on prejudice facing women at work; a revolution in mental healthcare; less corporate tax dodging; and, just this weekend, a new audit of public services and their effect on the disadvantaged.

Reforming stop-and-search and fighting human trafficking while she was at the Home Office prove that our new PM is not a recent convert to social justice, but equally her failure on immigration shows that raising public expectations can be dangerous.

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