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What Is Right? [audio 45min]

The second of a pair of debates exploring the apparently relentless trend of politics towards the centre and asking whether right wing ideologies still have any role in mainstream British political life. Recorded before an audience at the Conservative Think Tank, Policy Exchange, the editor of The Spectator, Matthew D'Ancona, asks a panel of self-proclaimed right wing idealogues and Conservative Party modernisers, including Lord Tebbit and Theresa May, if anything remains of the Right. Click here for 1st debate,"What Is Left?"
Read entire article at BBC Radio 4 "What Is Left? What Is Right?"