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To what extent is British Conservatism still committed to 'the free market and the strong state'?
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To what extent is British Conservatism still committed to 'the free market and the strong state'? Andrew Gamble was the political theorist who first argued that the dual character of Thatcherism was 'a commitment to the free market and the strong state'. At present, the Conservative Party is trying, or at least should be trying, to shake off the legacy left to it by Britain's first female Prime Minister. Margaret Thatcher was leader of the party when it first truly embraced the ostensibly contradictory elements of neo-liberalism and neo-conservatism. These two concepts combined the ideas of a free-market, (to combat the problems caused by Keynesian economic policies) and the traditional conservative belief in a strong authoritative state. Although David Edgar argued that the Conservative New Right has been prepared to place 'the good' before 'the free', suggesting therefore that Thatcher's government placed more emphasis upon a strong state rather than a...
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