Conservative Revolution

Marking the Centre for Policy Studies 50th anniversary, the collection of essays charts the development of Thatcherism and explores what might be needed to revive Conservatism in the same way today.
Conservative Revolution, edited by Karl Williams and Robert Colvile, includes an extended interview with Charles Moore, Thatcher’s authorised biographer, about the role the Centre for Policy Studies played in developing her thinking. Sir Graham Brady reflects on the CPS as the home of Thatcherism as a ‘seamless garment’ – thinking which linked economic freedom with personal liberty. The Centre for Policy Studies, he argues, is ‘needed now just as much as it was in 1974. The challenge is the same.’ Other authors include Dominic Sandbrook, Niall Ferguson and Maurice Saatchi.