![]() ![]() ![]() If you’re at a state school, you’re less likely to reach the top professions than if you’re educated privately. If you’re a woman, you still earn less than a man. ![]() If you suffer from mental health problems, there’s too often not enough help to hand. If you’re young, you’ll find it harder than ever before to own your own home. If you’re from a working-class family, life is just much harder than many people in politics realise." "But, as I have said before, fighting these injustices is not enough. May made her reputation when she addressed the Police Federation two years ago and told its members that they had a "contempt for the public," that 4 in 10 black people didn't trust the police, and that she would break the closed-shop union that has monopoly representation of the force. The police refused to clap her - an unheard of act for a Conservative home secretary, for whom this would normally be friendly turf. She went back this year and called the federation's accounts a "slush fund" and a "fraud" used by corrupt officers to pay for holiday homes and clothes. These are astonishing slamming comments for a Tory. Her entire speech could easily have been delivered by a Labour MP. ![]() She ended with the words, "Remember Hillsborough." This is the Conservative party's strategy for winning the next general election in 2020: To make a lot of very reassuring, liberal noises that don't sound anything like Margaret Thatcher would have said. Cameron used the same ploy, raising the minimum wage, increasing funding for the NHS, and maintaining working tax credits. The Conservatives have been polling four points or more ahead of Labour ever since. ![]()
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