Neale Kumar: What a teenager really thinks of the state of the Conservative party

Neale Kumar: What a teenager really thinks of the state of the Conservative party

Neale Kumar is a lower Sixth politics student at King Edward VI school Chelmsford.  Traditionally, the Conservative Party has been heralded as the party of valence, a party whose governance rested on the values of competence and integrity. Take the postwar Butskellism consensus, focusing on cooperative policy outcomes on issues like the welfare, rather than plain partisanship. Thatcher instead espoused a radical, yet traditional style of governa…