We’ve just uploaded the latest magazine content, and I’d recommend you check out Fraser’s article on the initial priorities of a Cameron government. What will they be? As Fraser puts it:
“My conversations with the key players in the preparation strategy suggest unambiguously that schools reform and an overhaul of the welfare system will be the priorities — the hope being that both undertakings will have yielded palpable interim results which will help Mr Cameron secure a second term.”
In other words, the Tories will push what are currently their most promising – and fully fleshed-out – policy areas. This is no bad thing. The ideas of Chris Grayling and Michael Gove are promising for a reason – they should bring about drastic change for the better.
However, some might worry that all this contradicts Cameron’s famous claim:
“Tony Blair explained his priorities in three words: education, education, education. I can do it in three letters: NHS.”
At the moment, Tory health policy is reed thin. So what of that alleged priority? Fraser suggests Cameron will get around it by “granting independence to the NHS bureaucratic elite”. That’s always something that will keep the health service professionals happy. But it could cause problems that a first term Tory government could do without. As Fraser writes: “There is no surer recipe for trouble than to give a Soviet-scale bureaucracy even greater independence.”
What do CofeeHousers think? As always, have your say in the comments section.
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