Values, Voice and Virtue: The New British Politics

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Sarah Manavis has noted that in response to negative reviews of the book, Goodwin has argued that "anyone who comes from a privileged background cannot effectively criticise his conclusions – that, by being part of the “new elite”, their arguments are null and void, their contradiction somehow proving his point.

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Goodwin plays the numbers game throughout the book, as though values are more or less worthy depending on the number of people holding them. In this climate, Goodwin may try to position himself as a maverick – crusading against the woke orthodoxy at Westminster and beyond – but in fact he is in lockstep with elite opinion on both sides of the aisle.The book’s timing (completed in summer 2018) rescues them from having to stretch national populism to accommodate Brazil’s new president-elect. He has served as specialist adviser to the House of Commons Education Select Committee on left-behind pupils and has given evidence to a Public Bill Committee on the importance of defending academic freedom in universities.

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Goodwin was the director of the Centre for UK Prosperity, itself an offshoot of the Legatum Institute, a pro-Brexit, libertarian think-tank funded by a New Zealand-born billionaire.But if one does so, one sees that the New Elite is nothing like as new as Goodwin supposes it to be. In 2020, a study of 70,000 entrants’ listed recreations in 120 years of Who’s Who found that since the 1990s, there has been a significant shift from hunting and opera towards pop music and football.

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If anyone disagrees, that is simply proof of their original thesis: that the new elite is out of touch. Tossing red meat to the hounds had only made them hungrier – prompting Goodwin to conclude that “the more we stoke public anger and distrust on immigration, the more we threaten the stability of our political system”. The focus is largely on the supporters of populist parties, rather than the leaders, while precise policies are skated over. He explained that his decision was because "one of the most interesting and important debates in politics right now is where conservatism goes next – not only here in Britain but globally. Similarly, the suggestion that those who have been responsible for austerity, anti-trade union laws and the imposition of real-terms wage cuts on nurses and railway workers are not the ones who really have power over our lives is bafflingly myopic.

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Cameron further restricted visas and welfare entitlements while rolling out the “hostile environment” strategy and streamlining deportations. Revolt on the Rightis a rich and insightful dissection of Britain's first new major political force in a generation.Revolt on the Rightis not just a timely and fascinating book; it is also an important one: the first detailed study of one of the most significant developments in modern British politics – the rise of UKIP, which not only taps into popular discontent with the European Union, but has emerged as Britain’s first major non-toxic party to the right of the Conservatives. In a statement, her family said she “was one of the most internationally recognised fashion designers of the 20th century and an outstanding innovator of the Swinging Sixties”. This is reflected in the vagueness of the “new elite”, said to be composed of the graduates in professional jobs who hold left-wing values on cultural issues. Goodwin pays lip service to this (see 100), only to reemphasise culture as the key cleavage in British politics today.