ConservativeHome's Platform: Maurice Saatchi: These are our values

ConservativeHome's Platform: Maurice Saatchi: These are our values

A distillation of conservative policy values, in honor of the 35th anniversary of the Centre for Policy Studies, founded by Margaret Thatcher and Keith Joseph.

"It is wrong that the majority of people in Britain are financially beholden to the State. This makes the State the master; the complicated tax and benefit system the chief instrument of its power.

"A paternalist government, based on the benevolence of a ruler who treats his subjects as dependent children, is the greatest conceivable despotism and destroys all freedom."