This cleared the way for Mr Cameron to focus on his positive, aspirational Toryism.

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For this biography is also something of a political pamphlet, a sophisticated rallying cry for disoriented modern Toryism.

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So is that how one should think of Mr Lilley's New Toryism not so much Thatcherism denied as Thatcherism repackaged?

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And urban Toryism will go largely unrepresented in this Parliament, just as Labour voters in southern England were unrepresented between 1983 and 1997.

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Nor is it likely to provide a beacon for contemporary Toryism.

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Having consulted their intellectual history, Mr Willetts and his friends now want to explain to people that Toryism was never supposed to mean anything like that.

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As Lord Blake, an eminent historian of Toryism, said at the time, that kind of change in the intellectual climate comes along only once or twice every hundred years or so.

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His brand of Toryism became known as "One Nation".

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