A London soup kitchen in 1867. Disraeli was concerned by the rampant inequality and poverty generated by rapid industrialisation
One-nation conservatism was the dominant strand of Conservative thinking in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Furthermore, references to one-nation principles have become more frequent in recent years:
■ David Cameron’s early attempts to modernise the Conservative Party — in particular, the concept of the ‘Big Society’ — have been linked to one-nation conservatism.
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