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Hello and welcome to The Spectator podcast. I'm Laura Prendergars and on this week's episode,

we'll be discussing Theresa May's Lurch to the Left, the NHS's looming crisis and how Americans

should talk about Trump. On to our first topic, the May manifesto.

In this week's issue of the magazine, Fraser Nelson says that the Prime Minister is lurching

to the left. David Goodhart, the author of The Road to Somewhere, then suggests that this

strategy may actually work. I'm now joined by Fraser and David to discuss. So, Fraser, it looks

as if the Tories are going to win this election with what are essentially a set of

labour policies. How has that happened?

Well, there are some conservative policies as well as labour ones, but the most striking

policy she's got are those which have been stolen from the Labour Party.

I mean, it doesn't seem that long ago that the Tories were saying they fundamentally believe

Ed Miliband was wrong, for example,

to put a cap on energy prices, that you can't legislate for prices any more than you can

legislate for the weather, that you can't have an £8 minimum wage for Ed Miliband was proposing

because it would destroy jobs and render unemployed those whose skills are worth less than

£8 an hour.

All of that's going out the window now.

So Theresa May is going to be going to the country with a £9 an hour minimum wage,

getting one more than Edomillaband, which she proposes to increase, with the energy price caps.

But more than anything else, she's coming with this Miliban narrative of there being

an inherent tension between consumers and shoppers and landlords and tenants, and that the

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