Meet this week’s Tory game-changer: Miriam Cates and her New Conservatives. Will their wizard scheme to kick out foreign care-home workers and stamp out sex education save the Tories’ bacon? Is she real or a cartoon rightist from a British version of The Handmaid’s Tale?
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• “Cates’s ‘Labour will nationalise our children’ thing reminds me of Emma Barnett asking if Labour were going to nationalise sausages.” – Zöe Grünewald
• “As they say, the first casualty of the Culture War is the will to live.” – Henry Morris
• “Maybe we DO need antagonists on social media? Otherwise people are just too nice?” – Marie le Conte
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