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Parliamentary Affairs 2009 62(2):335-349; doi:10.1093/pa/gsp004
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Taking the Temperature of the Political Elite 2: The Professionals Move In?

Michael Kenny

Professor of Politics
University of Sheffield
UK

Correspondence: m.kenny@ippr.org

The first 150 words of the full text of this article appear below.

... ‘politicians are increasingly a caste apart in Britain’ (Peter Riddell 1993)


   Introduction: new conservatives still rising?
 
I ended the previous Commentary piece with some speculative thoughts about how the bundle of ideas, intuitions and tactics that constitute the new ‘progressive Conservatism’ associated with David Cameron might fare in the coming months.1 Three months on, it is worth reflecting that what appeared as an area of relative weakness in the Conservatives' ideational repertoire—its economic policy thinking—has since become the source of a more coherent set of arguments.

As some of our major banks teetered on the edge of collapse, market confidence plunged and the financial crisis now triggered what appears to be a major recession, the Conservative leadership at the end of 2008 seemed to struggle to hit the right notes on these . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   What's wrong with British Politics?
 

   Peter Oborne's political class
 

   Understanding the career politicians
 

   The new populists
 

   Concluding thoughts
 

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