In this blistering collection of essays, Dominic Raab identifies some of the barriers to progress. The meritocrat’s manifesto is a call for Conservatives of all kinds to get back to the liberating agenda that brought such stunning electoral success in the 1980s. A future Conservative government must adopt a sweeping meritocratic agenda to strengthen social mobility in the UK.
Raab takes on the vested interests, whether they are the unions who go on strike with the support of only a fraction of their members, or the cartel of fat cats who set executive pay. He makes the case for reform of the EU, including the end of a CAP that costs every family £400 a year extra in food per year. He wants to cut taxes on low-income people and above all he wants to cut the size of the state – reducing government departments and the number of MPs – and axing so much of the bureaucracy that stifles enterprise.
And the key point is this: that the true meritocracy will be the society that produces the wealth that will always be needed to pay for the poorest and neediest.
The true meritocracy, in other words, is not just more efficient but kinder and gentler as well.
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