Melanie Phillips
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 27 Jun
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That's really how he thinks.
You say he's a kind of unreconstructed Thatcherite, and that's really how I've always thought of him, as an unreconstructed Thatcherite who has a thing about mass immigration and stopping the boats.
But unreconstructed Thatcherite doesn't fill me with a great deal of enthusiasm, quite frankly, because unreconstructed Thatcherites think in terms of economics.
They think in terms of the market, the free market.
I mean, no, that's partly why we are where we are, because people have forgotten what it takes to make a society in which we look after each other.
And again, I don't hear that from Nigel Farage.
I may be doing him a great disservice.
But people are listening for this.
They're listening and they're not getting it.
So I think that's partly why the shine has kind of come off him.
I think he can put the shine back on, but it requires some really kind of strategic thinking or strategic rethink about why he's kind of losing ground.
I think he can make up that ground because he has to stand on ground which is basically decent ground.
and responsible and proportionate.
And I think he can do that, but it's a narrow line that he has to tread.
Well, because America, i.e.
President Trump, turned on a dime and went the other way.
He basically gave up.
As far as I can see, he's the only American president ever to have gone to war against the Iranian regime, which I think is good.
It's taken America 47 years to do so.
47 years ago, the Iranian regime came to power and declared war on America, and in the intervening decades has killed hundreds, if not more than hundreds, of Americans and injured many more, attacked.
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