![]() This is the Conservative party's strategy for winning the next general election in 2020: To make a lot of very reassuring, liberal noises that don't sound anything like Margaret Thatcher would have said. She ended with the words, "Remember Hillsborough." Her entire speech could easily have been delivered by a Labour MP. These are astonishing slamming comments for a Tory. She went back this year and called the federation's accounts a "slush fund" and a "fraud" used by corrupt officers to pay for holiday homes and clothes. The police refused to clap her - an unheard of act for a Conservative home secretary, for whom this would normally be friendly turf. May made her reputation when she addressed the Police Federation two years ago and told its members that they had a "contempt for the public," that 4 in 10 black people didn't trust the police, and that she would break the closed-shop union that has monopoly representation of the force. If you’re from a working-class family, life is just much harder than many people in politics realise." "But, as I have said before, fighting these injustices is not enough. If you’re young, you’ll find it harder than ever before to own your own home. If you suffer from mental health problems, there’s too often not enough help to hand. If you’re a woman, you still earn less than a man. If you’re at a state school, you’re less likely to reach the top professions than if you’re educated privately. If you’re black, you’re treated more harshly by the criminal justice system than if you’re white.* If you’re a white, working-class boy, you’re less likely than anybody else to go to university. "Right now, if you’re born poor, you will die on average nine years earlier than others. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
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