Theresa May Buries Thatcherism in Play for U.K.’s Working-Class Votes
Mr. Gwynne said that From the economy to the N.H.S.,
and policing to schools, Theresa May’s Tories have failed again and again to deliver on the pledges they made.
She hailed "a manifesto to see us through Brexit and beyond"
and a "plan for a stronger, fairer and more prosperous Britain," one "rooted in the hopes and aspirations of working people across the land." Her speech was essentially trying to justify her decision to call a new election three years early to get her own mandate and ensure herself a larger majority in Parliament through March 2019, when two years of negotiations with the European Union are supposed to end.
Prime Minister Theresa May introduced the Conservative manifesto in Halifax, West Yorkshire, on Thursday, making some important changes to previous policy to try to reach beyond the party’s base to working-class Britons who traditionally have voted for the opposition Labour Party
and who voted last year for Britain to leave the European Union.
And while Mrs. May was a quiet supporter of the "Remain" campaign to stay in the European Union, she has worked to convince voters
that she will keep the promises she has made since becoming prime minister and negotiate a British exit from the European Union that will reduce immigration and mitigate the economic costs of leaving.
Not surprisingly, they also reject the idea of a new referendum on Scottish independence until Britain’s exit "has played out"
and "there is public consent for it to happen." Even before the Conservative manifesto was announced, the Labour Party issued a list of Tory "broken promises" from previous platforms.
