Defining Mayism: one nation Conservatism with a hint of papal purple and a dash of Labour red

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The UK in a Changing Europe promotes rigorous, high-quality and independent research into the complex and ever changing relationship between the UK and the European Union (EU).

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It is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), and based at King’s College London.The Conservative manifesto for the United Kingdom General Election on the June 2017 launched on the 18 May 2017 (accessible via this link), as well as the several speeches May delivered since she announced her bid to the leadership of the Conservative Party, suggest that her particular brand of Conservatism is mostly One Nation, but is also inspired by Christian democratic thought and by the social democratic agenda of the former Labour leader Ed Miliband. From these three ideological traditions May extracted different elements and blended them in a manner that is entirely consistent with conservatism.

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