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UK: ‘May we bring harmony’? Thatcher’s legacy on ‘race’ - Cameron’s nativist policies begin with Thatcher

11 April 2013

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"Thatcher’s New Right established what is today a commonsense nativism - which has stripped the political culture of group rights, internationalism, and history. It paved the way for Cameron’s landmark ‘multiculturalism has failed’ speech of 2011 and Michael Gove’s whitening of the history curriculum, and the much more general acceptance of views, ranging from those of Andrew Green and Christopher Caldwell to David Goodhart, that the nation is under threat from cultural pluralism ie immigrants and we need a more assertive integration policy ie assimilation."

See: ‘May we bring harmony’? Thatcher’s legacy on ‘race’ - Cameron’s nativist policies begin with Thatcher (IRR, link)

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