The western system strove to retain popular loyalty by successfully providing the masses with better lifestyles than could communism – through the NHS, welfare benefits and reasonable wages. David MurrayWallington, Surrey• Jonathan Freedland suggests that the current Conservative party is anything but. The Conservative party lost its conservative nature in May 1979. For all the championing of Victorian values, Margaret Thatcher was a radical. Click here to upload it and we’ll publish the best submissions in the letters spread of our print edition

Source: The Guardian June 09, 2019 17:00 UTC