Gulf between the Tories and the real world has never been so great Will Hutton

Twenty-two years in and it’s obvious this century is demanding challenges and responses for which the British Tory mindset, with one or two exceptions, is wholly unprepared. This century does not require a small state – it requires an agile state. More years of denial and the UK will be in very serious economic and social trouble.

Last week came a vignette of small-state stupidity, ceding a major area of 21st-century economic activity to France and undermining the UK’s national