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Conservatives expose themselves on local TV

One of the best things about the return of the Conservatives to government is that it helps us understand what they really stand for, rather than what they claim to stand for.

For example, it is a one of the great ironies of modern political history that both the Conservatives and Labour claim that the Conservatives are a free market party, when they are, of course, nothing of the sort.

Take Jeremy Hunt’s announcement that he wants to create a new TV network that would support local television in its infancy…

[To read the full article and provide comments, visit the Adam Smith Institute blog, where it first appeared]

The Culture Secretary gets into the spirit of his new role by re-enacting a famous scene from Basic Instinct.