Peter Oborne has a wonderful piece in the Telegraph today in which he argues that the Coalition government may one day be ranked alongside the great reforming governments of Herbert Asquith, Clement Attlee and Margaret Thatcher. Two things in particular earn Oborne’s praise: the attempt by Iain Duncan Smith to promote social justice by defending marriage, and the Coalition’s foreign policy, especially its readiness to engage seriously with the Palestinians - and even with Europeans. Indeed, Oborne says that the events of the past week may have witnessed the end of the 20-year Tory civil war over Europe.
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